Archive for 'work-like balance'
Odds and Ends (and Twitter)
Posted on16. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
This has been a most interesting week in dadland, but there are some smaller items that slipped through the cracks. Some of these were posted on Twitter***, so if you think they look familiar, they are. So — if you need a break from playoff hockey — here are some nuggets: Via Nick Senzee: This [...]
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Overworked Husbands=At-Home Moms (But Not Vice Versa)
Posted on06. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
Yesterday, I posted on Katherine Lewis’ great WaPo Magazine story on the struggles of a woman to get back into the workforce. But there is an even bigger question that undergirds that whole article: what drives people out of the workforce in the first place? This is the great unmentionable in “opt-out revolution” stories in [...]
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Final Thoughts (for now) on Flexibility
Posted on01. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
I was a bit harsh in my assessment of the White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility, but good night’s sleep hasn’t caused me to renounce my skepticism. Still, in the interest of fair balance, I should say that some people who stare at the issues of work-life balance harder than me have come to some [...]