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Single Advantage

Fostering a singles-friendly worksplace can mean increased employee retention—and more
Lucinda Armas | posted 11/02/2007
This article provided by the Engstrom Institute

It's 7:00 p.m. and your department's well-meaning manager walks past a row of cubicles. "Go home to your family, call it a day!" she tells a husband with two kids. Then, without thinking, she glances over at another manager, a middle-aged bachelor, and asks "Hey, working late again?"

Is it any wonder that in Christian ministry and the marketplace at large, many singles feel stigmatized, taken advantage of, or simply overlooked? The positive alternative is creating a singles-friendly office that produces an upside for the entire organization. The eye-opening demographics, alone, are cause to pause. More than 40 percent of the adults in the U.S. are either divorced, widowed, or have always been single.

One overworked myth

According to a Christian Science Monitor article about family-friendly workplaces, there's tension between employees with families and single employees. "People assume that if you're single, you don't have a life," Bella DePaulo, a psychology professor at the University of ...

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 employee retention, single, singles in the workplace, workplace morale