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How to Negotiate Remote and Flexible Work Arrangements

by Ruchi Sinha and Carol T. Kulik

Quick Takes

  • Learn about your company’s flexible work policies
  • Understand your role on the team
  • Divide essential tasks as face-to-face or remote
  • Make sure your boss knows your remote work successes
  • Have a plan B ready

More and more companies have adopted flexible work arrangements on a grand scale. Employees who never thought of working from home before are experiencing a newfound love for the flexibility that remote work can offer.

For solo parents, this offers opportunity. Asking your organization or boss for a flexible arrangement can give you the space your schedule needs to navigate the competing worlds of parenting and professional life. But how ...

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