Recently, Starbucks announced its investment in a new employee benefit: subsidized backup care. According to Starbucks’ VP of Benefits, backup care for children and adults was the “last piece of the puzzle” in providing holistic benefits to its workforce. Indeed, it...
Summer is supposed to be a relaxing season of brunches, BBQs, and beach getaways. But the past several weeks in Silicon Valley have been anything but chill. In bombshell reports published by The Information and The New York Times in late June, dozens of women in tech...
I see NextKids as integration, a way for us to own our own time, working together as well as being closer to our children while they are co playing and co learning. By Diana Rothschild (Founder + Chief Mom, NextKids) If you are, like me, one of the millions of working...
The growing legions of more than 42 million independent contractors have few options except expensive off-site daycare or even more expensive nannies. So a co-working space with childcare is the natural next step for our freelance nation. By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt...
In Hewlett’s new book, Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women are the Solution, she says the reason is that opportunities arise in periods of rapid economic transitions. By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt (Editor, Women 2.0) Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In has...
