The single easiest, fastest thing your company can do to boost its output and profits is to get everybody off the 55-hour-a-week treadmill, and back onto a 40-hour footing. If you’re lucky enough to have a job right now, you’re probably doing everything possible to hold onto it. If the boss asks you to work […]
My daughter doesn’t care what I do for her; she cares that I am here, present and loving. She doesn’t value me for how many things I can get done in a day, but simply for who I am. For a year before my partner and I had our first child, I worked from home. […]
How can we enforce boundaries about work when we’re taught to equate one’s productivity with one’s morality? It will be said that, while a little leisure is pleasant, men would not know how to fill their days if they had only four hours of work out of the 24. In so far as this is […]
A new study finally proves that working mothers are actually assets to a business, not liabilities. If you ask any working mother with babies or young kids, she’ll probably tell you that she feels like she’s failing in all of her roles—tired and checked out at the office, distracted and over-extended at home. She may not […]
Is there a way to use the time we’ve been given not more productively, but more meaningfully? Everyone (well, mostly women) keeps talking about how BUSY they are all the time. —I see in an email from my editor on Monday at 7:48am—It’s like suddenly, being “busy” is a badge of honor or something. I just want […]
