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Flexible Work Arrangements

Offices are overrated

August 14, 2007

Did I mention that I’m working “remotely” this entire week? Like, really remotely.  Like, so remote that when I ran out of facial moisturizer yesterday and went to the local grocery store to buy some more they didn’t have my favorite Aveeno one.  My nanny had to go out of town (again!) and since I really have [...]

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I’m out of the closet. Again.

August 1, 2007

So a funny thing happened at work yesterday.  Somebody (ok, the head honcho)  tried to coordinate a “team dinner” for the evening.  Three years ago, an outing like this would have been a fun diversion after work.  Hell, if someone had given me the head’s up last week I would have happily accepted a freebie dinner [...]

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Back to work

July 24, 2007

That title get you? Did you actually think I meant that I was going to start working instead of blogging? Ha! No seriously.  I looked back at some of my recent posts and realized I’ve taken a bit of a vacation from writing about what really gets me going – the ups and downs of working motherhood (with a bit [...]

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Part-time lover

July 12, 2007

Did I ever mention that I love working part-time? (And that I’m lucky enough to be able to do it?) Well, if I didn’t, I will say it again.  And, in case you haven’t heard yet, today’s top working mom news story (that couldn’t possibly have taken anyone by surprise) is that the “majority of working [...]

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D Day

June 25, 2007

I knew this day was coming.  The day my partner-in-working-mom-crime would quit her job. And it happened today. Last year at this time we were planning our work schedules together, my comrade in working motherhood, my amigo in work-life balance.  She was one of the few I could joke with about working on our days off [...]

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Speak Your Mind! I did.

June 20, 2007

Nataly, over at Work It, Mom! started an interesting weekly feature that asks you to “Speak Your Mind“ via an essay contest. Winner gets a $50 gift certificate from Spafinder.com (hello, why wouldn’t you do it!?)  This week’s topic is: If money was no issue, would you work and what would you do? Here’s what I wrote:My husband [...]

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The end of the 40-hour workweek?

June 19, 2007

Did I just make your head spin? Mine sure did after reading this article about a new research report by Gartner Inc., which claims that the end of the traditional workweek is near. The study says that by 2015, “digital free agency” will prevail and traditional work structures will crumble, thus reducing the typical 40-hour [...]

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Bringing my B+ game

June 7, 2007

Today at work, during a team meeting, my boss told our group that we should “bring our ‘A’ game” to a client project some of us are working on.  Being a consultant, I have heard this term a gazillion times, and usually I always nod in eager agreement. In theory, this concept makes a ton [...]

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Straight from the “on ramping” guru’s mouth

June 4, 2007

I’ve blogged and commented a lot recently on the slew of material out there that discusses women getting back on the career track after taking time off to stay at home with their children. Usually these voices are on high, and well, as a mere blogger, I’m down low, and so rarely would we have a [...]

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Time’s not a wastin’ when you’re a working mom

May 31, 2007

Lisa Belkin (I feel like I keep quoting her) in today’s New York Times brings up an interesting point about working: can wasting time actually be productive?  She says: Over the years I have come to see that the hours away from the writing are the time when the real work gets done. When a paragraph turns itself [...]

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