all the familiar characters here - the bitter childless employee who picks up the slack; the one who gave up a career because it wasn't fair to the kids or her peers; the junior associate pissed that she did all the work for a boss who was "checked out" and got none of the credit.
In theory, flextime seems like an everyone-wins proposition. But one person’s work-life balance can be another’s work-life overload. Someone, after all, has to make that meeting or hit that deadline.
As a result, many Americans who work for companies that embrace flexible hours are confronting a sort of office class warfare. Some employees have come to expect that the demands of their children, in particular, will be accommodated — and not all of their colleagues are happy about it.
These tensions are hardly new. But at a time when many Americans are struggling to find or keep jobs — and when many of us are being asked to do more with less — the issue has come to the fore.
why don't we ask the europeans how they deal with this? and not accept 'tank our economies' as an answer...
work-life balance is a good thing, but companies that implement it need to support those who need flexibility with tools like Workplace Solutions from care.com
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