Tag Archives: Flexible work

How do you job share?

In the New York Times Jennifer Turano, Ad Sales Director at Glamour magazine wrote an in-depth description of how she shares her job with Joan O’Rourke. Jennifer has been through several partners in her eight years of job sharing, and at times she has shouldered the whole load herself ‘til she found the right [...]
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Jumping back on the ladder- a conversation with Harvard’s Christine Heenan

Cross-posted from the Huffington Post Brenda Barnes, now CEO of Sara Lee, has gotten a lot of press because she left the corporate workforce for a decade to spend more time with her children, and recently returned to be CEO of a major company. Barnes is indeed a rare person, and women can make themselves feel [...]
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Talking Womenomics with Claire Shipman and Katty Kay

Flexibility at work “isn’t like a favor you hand out at a children’s birthday party.” It’s good for business and good for people. “For the past 30 years [women] were happy to sit quietly at the boardroom table and that’s changed: the boardroom table has to change. We think that can finally happen now.” These were the [...]
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