Nanette Fondas, co-author of The Custom-Fit Workplace, writes about business, work, and family.
There are like-minded men at the other end of the career spectrum, too, as I found doing research for The Custom-Fit Workplace, young men searching for their first jobs and still only anticipating fatherhood, but including hours flexibility and paternity leave in the job attributes they consider necessary.
Joan Blades, co-author of The Custom-Fit Workplace also was cofounder of Berkeley Systems, creator of After Dark and the iconic Flying Toaster screensavers.
She is a Great Work Cultures champion and co-author of The Custom-Fit Workplace and The Motherhood Manifesto.
Attach policies to these aspirations -- decent wages, quality child care, healthcare, paid sick days, fair pay and yes, telework -- what Joan Blades of MomsRising.org calls the custom-fit workplace -- to give more Americans the opportunity to become ceiling breakers.
Celebrate voting!" -- Joan Blades, co-founder of LivingRoomconversations.org, MomsRising.org and MoveOn.org, co-author of The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When Where, How to Work and Boost Your Bottom Line, and The Motherhood Manifesto.
While researching my book, The Custom-Fit Workplace, I found managers eager to maintain consistency in service to the important clients a new parent serves and to prevent valued parents from off-ramping only to return to work later for a competitor.
Mary Portas' new book, Work Like A Woman, asks why we are trying to fit into workplace cultures created by and for men who traditionally have made little or no contribution in the home.
Therefore, there is a need to design feasible and evidence-based competency frameworks that fit the workplace reality.
Asynchronous platforms allow professionals to learn at a time convenient to them, a time that allows flexibility to fit around workplace and personal demands.
Businesses of every size and in every sector are consuming flexible workspace and a new pattern is emerging which aims to fit the workplace around the worker, rather than vice versa.
