Scott Behson, PhD
Professor, Author, Speaker, Consultant
Building Better Workplaces
That Work for Everyone
Popular & Business Press
I have written in a wide range of business, parenting, news and popular press outlets, including Harvard Business Review, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Quartz, The Washington Post, Buzzfeed, Ask Men, Workspan and many more.
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Recent Publications:
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My latest at Harvard Business Review. (HBR.org), Making Performance Reviews Fairer in a Hybrid Workplace
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Quarterly column in Workspan, the publication of World at Work, the leading organization for total rewards professionals.
- 2023:
- How to Support Employees Whose Work Can't Flex
- Freedom and Responsibility: Turning Competing Priorities into Workplace Harmony
- Take the Best from 2018 and 2020 to Build Workplace 2023 ​
- 2022:
- What's in Your Employees' Invisible Backpacks?
- The Importance of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Thinking Beyond Base Pay and About Other Financial Supports
- The Best Employee Benefit is Time
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4 Ways Every Employee Can Contribute to Company Culture in Harvard Business Review & HBR Ascend
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The Omicron Variant Effect: Rethinking Return to Work in #Evolve, a publication of World at Work
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Embedding Whole-Person Workplace Values into Traditional HR Practices in Total Rewards Journal
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Expert Commentary as part of three articles on WalletHub:
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The Whole-Person Workplace, interview in the quartely newlsetter for the College and University Work-Life-Family Association.
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My bi-weekly LinkedIn newletter
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I am a regularly featured author of digital articles at HBR:
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Be a Work-Life Friendly Boss (HBR IdeaCast podcast and transcript)
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Just Because You’re Happy Doesn’t Mean You’re Not Burned Out
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Work-Life Balance Is Easier When Your Manager Knows How to Assess Performance
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Would Amazon’s 30-Hour-Week Experiment Work in Your Company?
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What Working Dads Can Do When A High-Pressure Job Asks Too Much
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My articles are among the most widely read and shared articles on HBR’s website, which itself is the 17th most shared website in the US.
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I have also contributed multiple chapters to HBR's book series for working parents:
Wall Street Journal
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Success Magazine
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A Working Mom’s Advice for Life Balance, in which I interview Sara Sutton Fell, founder and CEO of Flexjobs.com on her work-family juggle.
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Workspan Magazine (World at Work's magazine for HR professionals)
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Other outlets
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Fast Company– One Super-Easy Way To Advocate For Parental Leave
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Quartz– Give dads a gift they can really use this Father’s Day: paternity leave
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Washington Post “On Parenting”– What my millennial students taught me about work life balance and why we should all listen
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Buzzfeed– 11 Ways Dads Can Successfully Juggle Work And Family
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Ask Men- Involved Fatherhood: We Need to Start Giving Active Dads More Credit
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FDU Alumni Magazine- Double-Duty Dads
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WalletHub, 2 articles: Best & Worst States for Working Dads and 2022's States With the Highest Resignation Rates
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Huffington Post – Many, including: 4 Ways My ‘Paternity Leave’ Shaped Me As a Father and Strengthened My Family, 6 Things You Should Know About Working Dads, 5 Reasons Why Bosses Resist Flexible Work (and what you can do about it), Why Don’t More Men Walk the Talk on Work-Family?, Paternity Leave is Good for Kids, Too!, 16 Dads, 16 Paternity Leaves, and Joys and sacrifices of fatherhood
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Good Men Project – I have written dozens of features for the Dads & Families section, plus occasional articles for their Marriage, Good Life and Sports sections. Some of my favorites include:Building Father-Child Memories That Last, Joe Flacco and Hunter Mahan: Why They Both Made the Right Work-Family Decision, I Consider Myself Insanely Lucky, Thank You, Elvis, for Helping Me Raise My Son, 100 Words on Love: My Son’s First Heartbreak, Being a Father Makes You Better at Your Job,
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Salary.com. I am a semi-regular contributor for the leading web site for job seekers and salary information
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WiseCareers.com, where I have written a series of articles about work-life considerations for job seekers and career planning
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The Working Dad’s Survival Guide has been excerpted in various outlets, including:
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Huffington Post Parents, Huffington Post Business, Good Men Project, Fatherly Salary.com, The Greater Good, and City Dads Group
My work has been featured in:
The Atlantic, Esquire, The Daily Beast, Buzzfeed, Inc., MSN Money, Parent Magazine, Mashable, National Review, Roll Call, Today.com Parents, HLN’s Raising America, Canada’s Globe and Mail and even Chile’s El Mercurio, among many others.
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I enjoy speaking with reporters on workplace and parenting issues. Contact me here.
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