Their innovations as managers--profit sharing, flex-time, management by objective, the "HP Way"--transformed modern industry.
Based on their parenting roles, some female business chiefs have sought to ease staffers' work-family conflicts by introducing perquisites such as "flex-time" and sick-child facilities.
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His flex-time policies allow workers to come and go whenever they want say, when waves are high at the nearby surf point as long as deadlines are met.
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Gates negotiated flex-time before there was a word for it and pursued project work that she could complete in her own time and on her own terms.
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She argues for federal support for child care and after-school care, and control over flex-time for employees whose long hours usually come at the expense, emotionally and financially, of their families.
For example, a large-scale survey conducted in Canada found that as work hours increased and flex-time arrangements became rarer over the last two decades, the percentage of respondents who rated themselves as highly satisfied with their lives plunged by 50% over the same period.
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Yet for the longest time I-flex was more successful in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa than in the U.S., a major market.
As a single young professional in my 20s at Merrill Lynch, I never considered reviewing the policies that would affect my work-life balance, such as parental leave, flex time, telecommuting policies, or retirement benefits.
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We went into more detail on this particular feature in our review of the Flex, but in a nutshell: Easy Experience is essentially a special introductory launcher that helps first-time smartphone users settle into the whirlwind world of Android without experiencing as drastic a learning curve.
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