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IRL: New Rules of Return-To-Office

HR Digest

It’s also been a nouveau work experience for employees who are hot-desking for the first time in their careers, without a workstation, succulent, or stationery to call their own. How can I formally request my boss that I want to continue working flextime? People have changed as well.

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With Flextime, Bosses Prefer Early Birds to Night Owls

Harvard Business Review

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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Elder Care, Child Care, and the Struggles of Chinese Women

Harvard Business Review

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. Every woman interviewed knows someone who put her career on hold to care for an aging relative. Adeline Wong's story is typical.