Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better

If you realize that the request is completely unhelpful to you, then you’ve got a definite no moment on your hands.

there is an increasing awareness that it’s not necessarily how long you work, but how smart you work.

This is a really hard one for me. I hate the idea that people won’t like me, so I’ll bend over backward to accommodate and please people.

The CMI found that recruiters are looking for emotional intelligence and the ability to appreciate people’s values as much as they are looking for technical competency.

Fully 61 percent said flexible work arrangements were critical to continuing to work at the company.

If we have to work round the clock it somehow gives the impression that our companies really depend on us,

‘oh I should be doing this, or I should be doing that,’

We know the solution isn’t longer hours at day care or hiring more babysitters or asking our husbands to stay home. Because we’re the ones who want more time—for our children, our parents, our communities, ourselves.

Most of us want to work—but on our terms, in ways that make it possible to have a life as well.