Synopses & Reviews
- Based on in-depth interviews with more than 100 women across North America, Flex Time illustrates how mothers are successfully turning to flexible work to have more time with their children
- Balancing work and family is the #1 challenge facing working mothers today--a whopping 70 percent of employed mothers in North America feel that they don't have enough time with their children
Synopsis
Based on in-depth interviews with more than 100 working mothers across the country, this guide illustrates how they are successfully balancing career and family through flexible work, and shows readers how to figure out a flexible work schedule, how to pitch the idea to an employer, and more.
Synopsis
Trying to strike the right balance between career and motherhood is one of the most stressful, heart-wrenching issues facing women today. Torn between the need to nurture and the need to work, women yearn for a way to have the best of both worlds. In Flex Time, author Jacqueline Foley shows mothers that they can get the life they want by changing the way they work. In direct and engaging language, Foley shows readers how to create a personal vision of work/family balance, figure out the flexible work schedule that best suits them, prepare a compelling proposal for flexible work to pitch to their boss, and much more. Based on in-depth interviews with more than 100 women across North America, Flex Time is the first such comprehensive guide that offers women everywhere much-needed relief from the hectic, unbalanced pace of trying to juggle full-time work with raising children.