Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Flextime programs have never been more popular than they are today. Yet the question lingers of whether employees who take advantage of flexible work policies incur career penalties for doing so. make the case that depending on what the manager attributes the flextime use to, the employee may be either rewarded or penalized.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Are such “right to request” laws indicators of a rise in flextime? Or do they reflect a fear that flextime programs are being eliminated? New research from the Families and Work Institute (FWI) and the Society for Human Resource Management finds an “on the one hand, on the other hand” contradiction.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I spoke with Lisa Kay Solomon, vice-president of business development for Flexperience, about how organizations can build sustainable talent management strategies through flexible work. So what are some of the best practices around flexible work and flextime? Edited excerpts of our conversation follow: Why is flexibility so important?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

A series of studies from The Boston College Center for Work & Family in the Carroll School of Management looks at how men are integrating work and family responsibilities in the 21st century. And there's a clear message for managers: work-life needs are not gender specific.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

His career has always been demanding- long hours, lots of travel, ultra-high performance standards (which he always has met or exceeded). The timing of the request also helped my friend; there had recently been conspicuous turnover among mid-career professionals at this firm. This is particularly true of knowledge work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

Since how you leave your current job can be as important to your career as how you perform in the next one, you need to know the answers to these questions. Priscilla Claman, president of Career Strategies, Inc., Priscilla Claman, president of Career Strategies, Inc., What the Experts Say. Consider internal options first.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

We can’t and probably don’t want to know the details about these teams, but as Solomon points out, if organizations really understood the workplace effects of strong outside relationships, they might be more receptive to policies like flextime and telecommuting that make it easier for employees to spend time with their significant others.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

We can’t and probably don’t want to know the details about these teams, but as Solomon points out, if organizations really understood the workplace effects of strong outside relationships, they might be more receptive to policies like flextime and telecommuting that make it easier for employees to spend time with their significant others.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

We can’t and probably don’t want to know the details about these teams, but as Solomon points out, if organizations really understood the workplace effects of strong outside relationships, they might be more receptive to policies like flextime and telecommuting that make it easier for employees to spend time with their significant others.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

The potential benefits of workplace variability are numerous — increased morale, motivation, and the ability to attract and retain talent — yet many managers don’t know where to start. Even the most employee-oriented managers have concerns about having employees work outside of normal work hours or at places other than the office.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Even though more highly qualified women have moved into "career track" positions in recent years, there's a huge earnings gap: On average, women only earn 72% of the compensation paid to men for equivalent jobs. Flextime and programmatic help would help ease the burden.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2011

Mao Zedong may have famously proclaimed that "women hold up half the sky," but many of today's Chinese career women feel their high-flying ambitions have feet of clay. Yeah, we hold up half the sky," recently quipped a female senior manager for a multinational pharmaceutical company, "but there are 5,000 years of history dragging us back.".

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