Partnership Announcement

Moving Work Forward — the newly-formed, groundbreaking, multiyear partnership between SHRM and FWI — aims to help businesses become more successful by transforming the way they view and adopt workplace flexibility.

By highlighting strategies that enable people to do their best work — while building on FWI’s When Work Works initiative, and expanding upon SHRM’s We Know Next campaign — the partnership will promote flexible work arrangements that fit the 21^st century workforce and create a new competitive advantage.

The Partners

SHRM is the largest membership organization devoted to human resources. With more than 250,000 members and over 600 local chapters, SHRM helps members — and those they work with — respond and adapt to the new realities of the workplace.

As the workforce grows more complex, organizations are tapping into HR's unique expertise to help navigate trends in the workplace. HR professionals are "people strategists" working directly with the most senior levels of management to know what's next, so companies can remain competitive. SHRM’s We Know Next effort aims to highlight the value of human resources in business success and establish SHRM as an important resource for workforce issues.

As talent management strategists, more leading HR professionals are deploying flexible workplace programs and policies to recruit and retain top talent, enhance employee engagement, reduce turnover costs and increase productivity. Visit We Know Next for more information.

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FWI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that studies the changing workforce, family and community. As a preeminent think tank, FWI is known for being ahead of the curve, identifying emerging issues, and then conducting rigorous research that often challenges common wisdom and provides insight and knowledge. As an action tank, FWI conducts numerous studies that put its research into action and then evaluates the results. Its purpose is to create research to live by.

FWI is dedicated to providing objective information on changes in the workforce and workplace in order to inform decision-makers in government, business, communities and families. Their nationwide initiative, When Work Works brings research on workplace effectiveness and flexibility into community and business practice. Begun in 2004, When Work Works now reaches communities and states representing 30 percent of the U.S. population to:

• Share rigorous research and employer best practices on workplace effectiveness and flexibility,
• Recognize exemplary employers through the Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility based on surveys of employers and employees, and
• Inspire positive change so that increasing numbers of employers understand how flexibility can benefit both businesses and employees, and use it as a tool to create more effective workplaces.