TD Magazine Article
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Thu Jul 01 2004
The article deals with the issue of keeping work and life in balance. Flexibility relates to "how and when work gets done and how careers are organized," according to the Families and Work Institute. Everyone has the need for flexibility in the workplace-- whether it's to care for an elderly parent, take college classes, take a sick child to the doctor, and so on. More and more, work is "interfering" with life and is creating overscheduled, stressed people. Lancaster Laboratories made one pioneering decision, in the late 1980s, by surveying employees about the issue of adult daycare. With adult daycare, many people find out they need it and then that they need it immediately.
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Keeping Work and Life in Balance
Keeping Work and Life in Balance