Excerpted from full piece at The Huffington Post Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” published in The Atlantic has struck a collective nerve, breaking readership records on the magazine’s website and generating all manner of buzz. I admire her courage to speak out on the subject, given that she was once director of [...]
This is excerpted from a longer blog post at Corporate Voices. For the last 15 years, the Sloan Foundation has invested $120 million in more than 350 projects focused on work/life issues. And that investment paid dividends in elevating visibility of workplace flexibility issues–all the way to the White House. It brought us sound research that [...]
Kyra Cavanaugh, president of Life Meets Work, responds to Flex Time Flourishes in the Accounting Industry, published January 7, 2011 in the New York Times. She challenges the piece which seems to hold forth the notion that major accounting firms have mastered work/life issues, and the idea that these firms have successfully transitioned women to the [...]
Twenty-seven states support telework through legislation that encourages tax incentives, expansion of broadband coverage, or use by state employees. Illinois does not. On December 7, 2010, we held a summit in Chicago. Business, public sector, and government leaders gathered to discuss the role of telecommuting in Illinois’ economic future. At question was the state’s lack of telecommuting legislation, lagging [...]
My mother relocated with nearly every job she took. From Lansing to Glen Ellyn to Chicago, she went through all the effort and expense of moving house to make her commute less stressful. But trends are changing—particularly for young professionals. Companies that want to take advantage of top talent are looking for other ways to [...]
I’m just back from the Telework Summit in Philadelphia. The conference was rather focused on the technical requirements for telework—issues of hardware, space and policy. All necessary stuff. But… With all the technical set-up, training and coordination required (HR, finance, facilities, IT), it’s easy to get swallowed up by those issues and not fully address [...]
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