August 7, 2007
The Workplace Flexibility 2010 News Roundup is a compilation of the latest news articles, reports and other materials related to workplace flexibility. The News Roundup appears twice-weekly. If you have questions about any of the items, please contact Jennifer Hedrick at jlh62@law.georgetown.edu.
Articles
Opening the On-Ramp for Women
"Twenty-something women have surged past young men on the salary scale in New York and other large cities, according to recent news reports. But these fast starters may find themselves blindsided as they progress into their 30s and 40s. Indeed, even though 59 percent of recent undergraduate degrees are held by women, more than 90 percent of the top earners at Fortune 500 companies are men. Sylvia Ann Hewlett has made it her mission to change that.”
Looking to Attract Female Employees? Be Flexible
"We've all heard it. The baby boomers have started retiring and will leave the work force in unprecedented numbers within the next few years. As a result, employers are competing over a labor pool that is demographically different from anything that has gone before. So the scramble begins. Staffing strategies have to evolve. ”
Career Women in Japan Find a Blocked Path
"Yukako Kurose joined the work force in 1986, a year after Japan passed its first equal opportunity law. Like other career-minded young women, she hoped the law would open doors. But her promising career at a department-store corporate office ended 15 years ago when she had a baby.”
Op-eds
Our View: Telecommuting is One Way to Beat the Gridlock
"Butch Otter, who tries to come across as just a regular guy, is also just a regular Treasure Valley commuter. ‘The problem is, people are just like me,’ the governor told the Statesman recently, during his 18-mile, 50-minute morning drive from Star to Downtown Boise. ‘I'm sitting in the car looking and seeing all these people driving with only one person in the car.’ Otter, of course, isn't just like every commuter. As governor, he is CEO of a state bureaucracy with 19,000 workers, any number of which are Valley commuters jockeying with Otter for position on the road."