October is National Work and Family month, so I was happy to take a couple of days last week to attend Working Mother Media’s Work-Life Congress, an annual conference built around the Working Mother 100 Best Companies list. In addition to a gala awards dinner, the event featured a day and a half’s worth of […]
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The Trouble With
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A few weeks ago, at Working Mother’s annual “WorkLife Congress,” I attended a breakout session that made me think of Adam Pertman. I’d had a conversation with the adoption reformer a few months ago about the status of employer supports for adoption—see my last post for some of what I learned. The breakout session I […]
Employers: Time to Get Real About “Real” Families!
“Most children adopted from abroad have some level of special need, and most adoptions in America are of children from foster care. You have to convince me that bonding and taking care of your baby requires you to have six weeks, but taking care of, say, a sibling group with special needs only requires two. […]
The 8 Work-and-Life Changes I’m Grateful for This Thanksgiving
With the approach of Thanksgiving, I got to thinking about some of the things I’m grateful for. Not in my personal life, but in the world of work and life for Americans, in general. While there is much work still to be done to ensure everyone has the opportunity both to earn a living wage […]
Why Some Wonkish New Policy Guidelines from EEOC Make My Heart Soar
For those of you keeping track, I apologize for the long delay since my last post. I was completely overwhelmed with “great-place-to-work” application season and I had no creative energy for anything else. Things should be a bit calmer for the next sixth months or so, so you’ll be hearing from me a lot more. […]
Best of the Interwebs
When I’m not working for hire or writing my blog, I spend a certain amount of time perusing the “interwebs,” as my daughter would (sarcastically) say. If you don’t follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn, you may not know that I’ve been on a mission over the past few months to dig up and post […]
