What if every employer, boss, and business owner knew that offering their employees flexibility, virtual work, non-linear career tracks, and respect for employees’ responsibilities outside of work actually improves  productivity as well as profitability?

Let's start right now, at the very top! Sign a letter encouraging America's top Fortune 500 CEOs to embrace workplace practices that honor employee's responsibilities and aspirations both at work and outside of work. 

Dear Fortune 500 CEO,

A growing body of evidence reveals that companies that pay fair wages, as well as offer flexibility and training to even entry-level and lower-skilled employees, do better financially than those that don’t. These are win-win solutions for both employers and employees. When employees have jobs that are structured to allow them to meet all their responsibilities, it turns out that employers also win.  

In the rigorously researched book, "Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder," Dr. Jody Heymann presents a well-documented line-up of businesses that have flourished in large part because their management practices include respecting and empowering their lowest-paid workers. The data is compelling, when you invest in people, they respond by performing well.

The modern work force is capable of great productivity.  It is also more diverse than ever before, comprised of single parents, elders, and adults with responsibilities that must be met both at work and outside of work.   

“A study of 5,500 employees in one hundred organizations found a direct correlation between worker satisfaction and a firm's profitability, while another found companies with highly committed employees had a 112 percent return to shareholders over three years, compared to only 90 percent for those with average commitment and only 76 percent for companies with workers expressing a low degree of commitment.” – From the book, "The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where, and How to Work and Boost Your Bottom Line"

In tough economic times, jobs are precious and employers that use great management practices that respect the lives employees are golden.

As consumers we want to spend our money with businesses that share our values.  When we hear that companies treat all their workers well, it increases our desire to support those businesses as consumers.  

We hope that you will make every effort to embrace workplace practices that respect and support the complex lives of their modern work force.  We are confident that your efforts will benefit not only your employees but also your bottom line.  For more information about such workplace practices, visit: http://customfitworkplace.org/


Sincerely,