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This 3 page paper answers about the family-friendly workplace: what its policies are, what it looks like, etc. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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like? This paper answers questions about the family friendly workplace. Discussion Companies claim that they understand the need for employees to spend quality time with their families, and yet the
average American is working more hours per week than ever before. This suggests that perhaps these companies dont necessarily mean what they say. Is the workplace becoming more or less
family friendly? As noted above, a great many companies now are talking about being family friendly; yet at the same time, people are working longer and harder than ever before,
and for less money and fewer benefits. This would suggest that the workplace in general is less family-friendly. What does such a workplace look like? One source suggests that a
family-friendly workplace is one in which a lot of women are employed, as women are still the primary caregivers in society and a company with a lot of women will
be more likely to provide family-friendly benefits (Lane). By the same token, a business where a majority of the executives are female will also tend to provide more family-friendly benefits:
82% compared to 56% if the company is run by men (Lane). A family-friendly workplace is also quite likely to be one in which employees are allowed to display photos
and other personal items; its also likely to have an empty parking lot after hours, indicating that the employees are at home with their families, not stuck in the office
working late (Lane). What kinds of policies should an employer offer working parents? This issue has become hugely controversial, and has set single people and those without children at odds
with parents. Many times, people without children "feel ripped off because they dont get the perks (time to use lactation rooms, opportunity to work from home, flextime, leniency when they
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