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HBR Guide to Motivating People (HBR Guide Series)
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HBR Guide to Motivating People (HBR Guide Series)

by Harvard Business Review
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
272 pages
4h 10m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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CHAPTER 26

Flex Work Doesn’t Help Employees If It Hurts Their Careers

by Lindsey Trimble O’Connor and Erin Cech

When you think about who needs flexibility at work to manage personal and family responsibilities, who comes to mind? If you are like most people, you envision a working mom.

The prevailing assumption is that working mothers are the ones who want and need flexibility at work. To be sure, many working mothers still shoulder the daunting double shift of full-time work and primary child care responsibilities, and many likely want jobs that give them more flexibility to juggle these important responsibilities. Nearly two decades of research shows that working flexibly is akin to a career torpedo for many working moms: Those who do it are ...

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ISBN: 9781633696778