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encourage workers to take responsibility for their own health, safety and wellness and contribute to creating a healthy work environment

create environments that make the healthy choice the easy choice

promote work-life balance and make work a healthy life experience

jobs are challenging

employees have adequate resources to do their job

Lower absenteeism

lexibility – allowing employees to have some capacity to adapt their workday to respond to family issues such as a child becoming ill or one who has special needs, school visits and parent-teacher interviews or special needs of elders. It typically includes family responsibility leave for employees. Supportive supervisors/managers whose management style values staff and is characterized by a desire to help employees achieve better balance between work and the rest of their lives. A culture that is family friendly - overall attitudes, beliefs, values and taken-for-granted ways of doing things that support work-family issues as legitimate workplace concerns, and as an opportunity to develop ‘new ways of working’.  Options include maternity, paternity, family and personal leave provisions. Alternative work arrangements – options are available to employees including daily or scheduled flex time arrangements, job-sharing, reduced hours, compressed work week, family leave options, part-time work, gradual retirement, telecommuting, other leaves and sabbatical options. Such alternative work arrangements are seen as ways of working, and employees using them are not sidelined, marginalized or belittled. Recognition of child and elder care issues including support for child care, providing access to a service regarding child or elder care, establishing on-site child care or, developing a consortium with other employers in order to provide emergency child care. This includes accommodating the needs of employees who are breastfeeding their children.

Quality improves when more of the work that goes into a final product is done by people who are good at it.

The improvement is even greater when, as with TopCoder projects, people who are good at work compete with one another to get it.

power of the online “open innovation marketplace”

another major benefit of hyperspecialization: speed.

More generally, hyperspecialization can reduce clock time by assigning related tasks to different people who then accomplish them in parallel rather than serially.

many workers to piece together year-round, full-time hours by working multiple jobs. In addition, working conditions are more uncertain

being precariously employed is worst when you’re living in low income, our research confirms this increasingly is an issue that affects people at every income level

job insecurity is about more than just poverty. Its impacts are far-reaching, affecting all parts of our lives, redefining how we contribute to our economy, give back to our community and interact with our families. Precarious work can make it more difficult to make ongoing volunteer commitments and donate to charities

Trends that have caused nearly half of our work force to engage in insecure employment show no signs of slowing down

Training and education models with a life-long learning focus can help workers build the skills to continuously improve their employment prospects.

What we need today is a renewed public policy framework that will be supportive of those in precarious employment and responsive to the challenges associated with this shifting labour market

the TPP is the most ambitious in the short term. It is dominated by America and Japan and also includes Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Together these countries account for about 40% of global GDP, making it one of America's biggest potential free-trade agreements (FTAs).

the TPP is not just aimed at dismantling tariff barriers. It is also meant to tackle tough issues such as intellectual property, services, government procurement, labour and environmental standards. Since its members include economies such as Vietnam and Malaysia whose supply chains depend on cheap labour, negotiations were always likely to be tricky

TPP failure would be a disaster

There is still time for him and Mr Abe to rescue the trade talks. But unless Mr Obama leads from the front, America's own leadership in the Pacific will seem less convincing than he has repeatedly promised.