Founding president for the Center for Work-Life Policy,  Sylvia Ann Hewlett, has a new book called “Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success.” In it she writes that while 37 percent of qualified women “off-ramp” or opt out of their career at some point, generally to raise a family, a majority (97%) […]

I was laughing.
Okay, maybe not laughing, but definitely chuckling when I read recently that Bersin & Associates, a talent management consultancy firm, conducted a survey of 750 business and 55 senior HR executives and found that “more than half admitted to a critical shortage of line managers as well as difficulty in identifying, hiring and […]

Founding president for the Center for Work-Life Policy,  Sylvia Ann Hewlett, has a new book called “Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success.”  In it she writes that while 37 percent of qualified women “off-ramp” or opt out of their career at some point, generally to raise a family, a majority […]

I recently read that Careerbuilder.com found in its annual survey that 20 percent of the 7,000 respondents plan to be in contact with their place of employment during their vacation.
Now while this is down from last year’s high of 27 percent, it still seems ridiculous to me that so many people feel it absolutely necessary to […]