Tag: flex time
How Flexible Work Culture Can Make Business More Social
Ten years ago, I met a woman working in the kitchens of my sons school. Prior to having children, she had been a high flying professional. This, she told me, was the only job she could find with the flexibility she needed to care for her family.
Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is dead
Google’s “20% time,” which allows employees to take one day a week to work on side projects, effectively no longer exists. That’s according to former Google employees, one who spoke to Quartz on the condition of anonymity and others who have said it publicly. What happened to the company’s most famous and most imitated perk?
When Corporate Support Backfires on Women Workers
Purportedly family-friendly employment policies may actually be holding women back, argues INSEAD professor Herminia Ibarra. Women increasingly find themselves trapped in “pink ghettos” — supporting roles away from the corporate front lines, where it’s easier to secure maternity leave and flexible schedules. Companies that offer less help to working moms tend to have less overall workplace participation by women, but also tend to have…
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