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This week's Your Money column looks at how workers are perceived if they use a more flexible work arrangement — say, working early and quitting early, or cutting back on hours when caring for an elderly parent.
The Boston College study found that when men needed to take their offspring to the doctor or pick them up from child care, they tended to do so in a "stealth" fashion rather than ask for a formal flexible work arrangement.
Stanley and other workplace experts believe training is crucial for both managers and employees before they jump into a flexible work arrangement.
The first choice would be a formal flexible work arrangement, either reduced hours or telecommuting, which most large companies already offer.
Another form of flexible work arrangement is part-time work, which in Spain has traditionally been a second-best job (Fernández-Kranz and Rodríguez-Planas 2011).
The flexible work arrangement gives a woman a chance to balance parenting and working, but it will never allow the female executive to reach the top of the heap.
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Some employees seek flexible work arrangements all of the time; others ask for flexibility only intermittently to meet specific needs like attending meetings at a child's school or taking a parent to doctor's appointments.
Globally, flexible work arrangements, through the use of temporary nursing staff or the working practices of permanent staff, have emerged as an important strategy for dealing with nursing shortages, particularly in hospitals (3– 15).
Third, flexible work arrangements should be integrated with shift systems.
But in our sector, flexible work arrangements are currently associated with a lack of commitment.
At job fairs, he said, younger employee candidates frequently ask about flexible work arrangements.
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