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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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Be Flexible, Attract Talent

Marshall Goldsmith

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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What About Working Fathers?

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, we've seen reams of research and articles about the challenges that confront working mothers and been given heaps of advice on what corporate leaders can do about it. And there's a clear message for managers: work-life needs are not gender specific. But what about working fathers?