70 is the new 50 at work these days. A new survey about what older workers want shows how much our timeline has changed.
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All I want for Christmas is to telecommute
My commute blows.
Okay, a lot of people fare far worse. I once had an editor who commuted from Philadelphia to New York City—that’s 95 miles. And for this story I wrote on commuter couples, I interviewed folks who on Monday mornings head not for the train station but for the airport.
Me, I live just about as close to the city where I …
“Flex work is not the answer”
That’s one of the first things Cathleen Benko said when she visited TIME today. And you’re going to want to hear why because
a) that’s Cathleen Benko, as in the vice chairman of Deloitte Touche, and
b) she’s just written a book (co-written by Anne Weisberg) that executives around the country are going to pore over, and
c) one of those …
Flexible Work Is Key Issue for Opt-Outers and On-Rampers
Last night, I attended an event at Merrill Lynch hosted by Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. It was called the Back in Business Roadshow, and the multi-city tour is meant to appeal to women and men who have stepped off the career treadmill and are looking to step back on.
The panelists painted a fairly rosy picture of all that …
Time Is a Valuable Commodity for Workers
Time. I think a lot about time, and not just because it’s the name of the news organization I work for. Like most working people, I find time–or the lack of it–an eternal frustration, an unwinnable battle, the bane of my harried existence. My every day is a race against the clock that I never, ever seem to win.
This is hardly a …
Time to Hug It Out With Flex Time
Seems like flex time is on everyone’s mind these days. The current cover of BusinessWeek features the flexible work program at Best Buy (which I might point out was explored in a July 2005 TIME article, “Reworking Work,” by my colleague Jyoti Thottam). “Smashing the Clock,” shouts BizWeek’s headline. “No schedules. No mandatory meetings. …
