Work Life Balance a Top Priority for Millennial Women
Women in today's workforce place a high importance on work life balance.
According to the Millennial Women Workplace Success Index by Accenture, the two qualities that women view as a key to workplace success are the ability to balance their personal and professional lives, at 59 percent, and working in a job where they can make a difference, at 66 percent.
This supports the theory that family-oriented and younger people are more interested in a job that offers flexibility as one of its benefits. In addition, about 66 percent of respondents said family life is important to them, compared to the 29 percent of women who said career success is important.
Employment Background Check Procedures Diversify
New pieces of legislation are being proposed in an effort to make employment background check procedures more friendly to a diverse workforce.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently introduced an initiative dubbed E-RACE, or Eradicating Racism and Colorism from Employment. Through that effort, the EEOC has found that employer policies on criminal and credit histories may have an adverse impact on certain individuals, particularly those of African American or Hispanic descent.
As a result of that initiative, according to an article by Human Resource Executive Online, many employers have seen an increase in EEOC requests for information concerning background check procedures and policies, which has led to an increase in lawsuits.