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Category Archives: Flexible Work

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Apr 21, 2015Cynthia CalvertAdvancing Women, Flexible Work

What Employers Can Learn from Yale Law Students

Yale Law Women measured and prodded and ranked large law firms,  and issued a “Top Ten” list of family friendly firms.  The main message isn’t startling:  job seekers today look at employers’ work/life bona fides when making career decisions, and savvy employers are beefing up their work/life offerings in an effort to attract, retain, and advance

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Apr 6, 2015Cynthia CalvertFlexible Work

Five Essentials for an Effective Flexible Work Policy

Flexible work arrangements are often ad hoc, either implemented by an employee on his or her own with no agreement by the employer, or produced by a secret deal between an employee and supervisor.  This can create problems for the employer:  valued employees who need more work/life control and do not know that flexible work

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Oct 21, 2014Cynthia CalvertFlexible WorkFathers

Most Men Work Flexibly, And Their Employers Support It

Getting and keeping the best male employees requires not only providing flexibility but also supporting it, a new study by the Working Mother Research Institute says. Most men surveyed are working flexibly (77%), and most said their employers encourage flexible work (62%). The 1000 men surveyed were mostly white, college-educated, breadwinners who were dads, but

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Feb 22, 2012Cynthia CalvertFamily Responsibilities Discrimination, Flexible Work

FRD and Flexibility

“There is a world of difference between caregiving and workplace flexibility,” Joan Williams, brilliant thinker and founder of the Center for WorkLife Law,  told the EEOC last week. Her discussion focused on the very common misconception that family responsibilities discrimination is about alternative work schedules – a mistake so common that even Judge Preska of

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