People For Puget Sound receives 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility

People For Puget Sound, a citizens’ conservation group protecting and restoring Puget Sound and the Northwest Straits, is a winner of the 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility.

The award, to be presented on June 30 at a noon luncheon at the Arctic Club Hotel in Seattle, honors Seattle businesses that have set the standard in flexible work practices.

 “We’re honored to be recognized not only as an organization that gets results in saving Puget Sound but also that we do it in a way that meets the many needs of our dynamic work force,” said Molli Barnes, human resources director of People For Puget Sound. “ By balancing work, family and personal needs, we are able to attract and retain top talent and focus on achieving our mission.”

People For Puget Sound provides its staff the flexibility they need. Compressed work weeks, generous paid time off benefits and telecommuting are some of the strategic tools the environmental non-profit uses to help employees succeed at work and at home.

The Sloan Awards are in their fifth year of working with the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce. Out of 1,000 applicants, only 17 were chosen locally this year. 

The selections were made based on a rigorous scoring method that weighed employer and employee survey information to determine which places best used workplace flexibility to increase work effectiveness as well as help employees succeed at work and at home.

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People For Puget Sound works with people for a clean and healthy Sound. Since 1991 we have protected and restored habitat through education and action. www.pugetsound.org