AWLP Announces 2006 Work-Life Innovative Excellence Award Recipients Sun Microsystems, GlaxoSmithKline and American Business Collaboration for Quality Dependent Care Recognized for Outstanding Work-Life Programs
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. - Alliance for Work-Life Progress® (AWLP), the leading not-for-profit professional work-life association, recently announced the recipients of its 2006 Work-Life Innovative Excellence Award. Sun Microsystems, GlaxoSmithKline and American Business Collaboration for Quality Dependent Care are the 2006 recipients for implementing programs that enrich the lives of their employees while achieving organizational goals.
Recipients will be honored at the AWLP 10th Annual Conference & Exhibition, March 1-3, in Austin, Texas.
"The level of sophistication and the well-documented organizational impacts represented in the applications continue to raise the bar each year," said AWLP Director Kathie Lingle. "We also received a markedly higher volume of submissions this year. These combined factors made it even more difficult to determine the finalists than usual."
Recipients were selected based on their ability to establish work-life programs that contribute to the well being of employees and address the organization's business needs.
Sun Microsystems cited "iWork," a flexible and mobile internal work program for employees that lowered its real estate and technology costs saving an estimated $60 million in operating expenses a year.
GlaxoSmithKline established "Team Resilience," an employee stress prevention and intervention program.
American Business Collaboration for Quality Dependent Care implemented "Powerful Tools for Caregivers Online," a Web-based education program designed to provide employees with the skills to better care for themselves while caring for a relative or friend with a chronic medical condition.
"These new developments underscore the fact that strongorganizational support for success at home as well as at work isincreasingly understood to be a winning business strategy in today's global economy," Lingle said.
Past recipients have included U.S. Army, Verizon Wireless, AT&T, City of Honolulu, Marriott, IBM, and the University of California - Davis. For more information about the Work-Life Innovative Excellence Award and its past recipients visit, www.awlp.org/award.
This year AWLP is celebrating its 10 th anniversary. Since 1996, AWLP members have designed and administered corporate work-life initiatives for thousands of employees in North America and around the world. A special 10th anniversary Web site (www.awlp.org/10thanniversary) is available to learn more about AWLP history including interviews with founding members, work-life timelines, bulletin boards and a calendar of special events.
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WorldatWork (www.worldatwork.org) is an association of human resource professionals from FORTUNE 500 and other leading organizations worldwide focused on attracting, motivating and retaining employees.
Founded in 1955, WorldatWork provides practitioners with training and education to effectively design and implement strategies and practices in total rewards, including compensation, benefits, work-life, recognition, and career development. With offices in Scottsdale, Arizona and Washington, D.C., WorldatWork supports its 30,000 members and professionals in 75 countries with thought leadership, publications, research and community. WorldatWork administers certification through the WorldatWork Society of Certified Professionals.
The WorldatWork group of registered marks includes: WorldatWork®, workspan®, Certified Compensation Professional or CCP®, Certified Benefits Professional® or CBP, Global Remuneration Professional or GRP®, Work-Life Certified Professional or WLCP®, WorldatWork Society of Certified Professionals®, and Alliance for Work-Life Progress® or AWLP®.
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About Alliance for Work-Life Progress® Alliance for Work-Life Progress (www.awlp.org) is dedicated to advancing work-life as a business strategy integrating work, family and community. An entity of WorldatWork, AWLP defines and recognizes innovation and best practices, facilitates dialogue among various sectors and promotes work-life thought leadership.
