Workplace Flexibility Faces Daunting Challenges

    “No One Should Have to Choose Between Caregiving and Work” is the title of an article by Jody Gastfriend, VP of Senior Care Services at Care.com, that appears in this week’s Harvard Business Review Blog.  She makes a poignant and passionate argument for greater...

Why Do We Underestimate Risk?

    Why did a very successful Coca-Cola ever launch New Coke?  Why did people invest their kids’ college funds in Beanie Babies?  Surely anyone could have seen these efforts could only end in ruinous failure.  Hind sight is 20/20 because human beings are, more often...

Groundswell Growing for Regulation of Part-Time Work Schedules

   Lost in July’s Jobs Report celebration of the drop in the unemployment rate was the remorseless and grinding continuation of the destruction of full-time jobs.  Nearly 800,000 part-time jobs were created while 523,000 full-time jobs were wiped out.  A staggering 28...

EEOC Conflates PDA with ADA in New Guidance

Apparently unwilling to wait for a Supreme Court decision on the issue next term, and reasoning in direct conflict with prior federal courts of appeals decisions, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued guidance for employers with regards to pregnant...