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| 2006 Work-Life innovative excellence award recipients 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 strong organizational support for success at home as well as at work is increasingly 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,http://www.awlp.org/award. This year AWLP is celebrating its 10th 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 (http://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. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |