Daddy Time
Erstellt von Hans-Georg Nelles am Donnerstag 22. März 2007
Forbes bringt in seiner Online Ausgabe vom 19. März einen Special Report Work-Life Balance.
While some folks obsessively check their BlackBerrys in bed and haul their laptops to their kids‘ soccer games, there are lots of other people looking for a better way to balance the demands of a high-powered career against a fulfilling family life. Their companies are helping. Whether it’s educating a father-to-be on what to expect when his wife is expecting or a CEO who encourages his staff to take lunchtime surfing breaks, the age of widespread life-work balance seems to be finally dawning.
Ein Beitrag befasst sich mit dem Thema ‚Daddy Time‘. Dort wird ausgeführt, wie Unternehmen zum Beispiel IBM, Goldman Sachs und KPMG die Potenziale aktiver Vaterschaft nutzen:
KPMG works with the National Fatherhood Initiative to figure out what dads need. In 2002, it introduced paternity leave; to date, 80% of the company’s dads have taken advantage of it. Now KPMG is on to education. The company’s Baltimore office recently held a lunchtime session for fathers to discuss balancing work and personal life.
„We’re really trying to recognize that it’s not just the women doing the juggling,“ says Barbara Wankoff, KPMG’s national director of the workplace solutions group.
Drug company Eli Lily is holding a conference in the spring to determine how it can best provide fathers tools to be better parents and employees.
So where is this coming from? Gen X and Y dads put work/life balance as more of a priority than their parents. And more dual-income families means more chores for all. Men in two-income households report the amount of housework they do daily has increased 65% over the past 25 years, according to a study by the Families and Work Institute.
