Work/Life Balancing Act

In studying hiring trends for 2008, CareerBuilder.com found that almost 40% of employers plan to increase their offerings of flexible work arrangements (60% currently offer some form of flexible scheduling). These arrangements include:

Alternate schedules (78%)

Compressed workweeks (38%)

Telecommuting options (33%)

Summer hours (21%)

Job sharing (18%)

Sabbaticals (8%)

Other trends included the rehiring of retirees from other companies, screening job candidates using online search engines and social networking sites, and hiring freelance or contract workers.

Source: CareerBuilder’s Job Forecast 2008, www.careerbuilder.com.