@Work magazine
Share Your Expertise with the Accommodation and Leave Community
Your experience can help someone else solve a challenge, strengthen a program, or see an issue from a new perspective. Contribute to @Work magazine to share practical knowledge with DMEC’s community of more than 22,000 professionals and help move accommodation and leave management forward.
What We’re Looking For
@Work publishes original, practical content that helps accommodation and leave professionals understand emerging issues, make informed decisions, and improve their programs.
Strong submissions go beyond high-level observations. DMEC members value specific examples, useful tools, actionable strategies, and insights grounded in real-world experience. All published content must include appropriate sources and cannot promote products or services.
You can contribute in two ways:
Write an Article
Articles appear in a single issue and range from 600 to 1,500 words, depending on the format. Choose the approach that best fits the story you want to tell.
Feature article. Explore a legislative or industry trend affecting employers, or take readers inside a comprehensive integration effort.
Program showcase. Share a program, the problem it was designed to solve, and the outcomes or return on investment it delivered.
Return-to-work showcase. Explore the factors that can complicate return to work and the practical investments or solutions that can improve outcomes.
Compliance showcase. Show how an organization addresses a compliance challenge through policies, tools, or strategies.
Employer perspective. Share best practices, professional development insights, approaches for demonstrating value, or lessons drawn from your experience.
Expanded perspectives. Bring additional viewpoints to important trends and challenges across accommodation and leave management.
Contribute a Recurring Column
Have a defined area of expertise and enough to say for more than one issue? @Work columns appear across five issues and give contributors an opportunity to develop an ongoing point of view.
Successful column proposals have a clear focus and provide specific examples, resources, tools, tips, and strategies readers can put into practice. Columns are approximately 550 words, including references.
2027 Editorial Calendar
Use this calendar to line up your topic with the theme and deadline that fit it best.
| Issue | Article Deadline | Theme |
|---|---|---|
| January–March 2027 | Nov. 20, 2026 | Employer Compliance |
| April–May 2027 | Jan. 6, 2027 | Mental Health and Well-Being |
| June–August 2027 | Feb. 25, 2027 | Integrated Absence Management |
| September–October 2027 | Apr. 16, 2027 | Americans with Disabilities Act and Return to Work |
| November–December 2027 | Jun. 5, 2027 | Technology and Innovation |
What Makes a Strong Submission
We are looking for content that gives readers something they can take back to work. Your proposal should be:
- Original. Content submitted to @Work must be new and unpublished.
- Specific. Show readers how an idea works through examples, tools, resources, or lessons from practice.
- Well supported. Articles and columns must include sources. External sources are preferred, although relevant professional experience can also be cited with appropriate detail.
- Educational. The goal is to help readers learn, think differently, or take action.
- Nonpromotional. Product and service promotion is not permitted in editorial content.
Why Contribute to @Work?
Help move the profession forward
The challenges accommodation and leave professionals face are rarely solved by theory alone. Sharing what you have learned gives others access to practical experience they can use to strengthen their own programs and decisions.
Put your expertise in front of the DMEC community
Publishing in @Work gives you an opportunity to share your perspective with thousands of professionals working across accommodation and leave management and establish yourself as a knowledgeable voice on the issues shaping the field.
Turn your experience into something others can use
A successful initiative, a difficult implementation, an emerging challenge, or an approach that changed the way your organization works can become a resource for professionals facing similar questions.
Become part of the conversation
@Work is built around the expertise of people doing this work every day. Contributing gives you a way to add your experience to that collective knowledge and help the community learn from one another.
How the Proposal Process Works
1. Choose your idea and format
Decide whether your topic works best as a one-time article or an ongoing column. For articles, select the format that most closely matches what you want to share.
2. Submit your proposal
Complete the proposal form with information about your topic, author or coauthors, and any internal review requirements. Article proposals should include a summary, three learning objectives describing what readers will learn or do differently, and any tools or resources you plan to include. Column proposals should include the overall perspective and summaries for all five installments.
3. DMEC reviews your proposal
Submissions are selected competitively based on the value and insight they can provide to DMEC members. If your proposal is selected, the DMEC editor will work with you on timing, placement, and next steps.
4. Develop your piece with the DMEC editorial team
Published content goes through a collaborative review process that includes the DMEC editor, Editorial Advisory Group, copy editor, and Education team. Authors should be prepared to provide additional detail or sources and revise their drafts as needed before publication.
Have an Idea Worth Sharing?
Your experience could be exactly what another accommodation and leave professional needs to approach a challenge differently.
Share what you know, contribute to the community, and help shape the conversations moving the field forward.
