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As part of the White House Forum for Workplace Flexibility, the CEA released this report presenting an economic perspective on flexible workplace policies and practices.

Part One of a three part NPR series on Flexible Work:  In the early 2000s, Thompson and her colleague Cali Ressler were working at Best Buy and charged with creating a flexible work strategy there…

Companies plan to continue providing employees with greater flexibility in hopes of maintaining a better work-life balance. Thirty-five percent of employers say they plan to provide more flexible work arrangements in 2010, compared to 31 percent last year.

 A recent global study of over 11,000 corporations across 15 countries commissioned by Regus, the global provider of innovative workspace solutions, found that 44 percent of companies worldwide plan to hire more mothers for part-time jobs over the next two years. The study found that among U.S. firms, 46 percent reported plans to recruit more [...]

Fully two-thirds of women with children ages 17 or younger work either full time or part time.  Most have full-time jobs outside of the home (74%), but just 37% of working mothers prefer this role.  A survey taken this summer by the Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project asked working mothers whether they [...]

In the span of the past decade, full-time work outside the home has lost some of its appeal to mothers. This trend holds both for mothers who have such jobs and those who don’t …