One of the greatest myths going is that you’ve got to create a family-friendly company in order to recruit and retain talented employees. Well, you absolutely have to do so, but the myth is thinking that family-friendly policies are going to solve the problem of overwork. I know company after company with generous family-leave policies that enable employees to take sabbaticals and to take time off for this or that, but you know what? It turns out that employees aren’t taking advantage of any of these so-called family-friendly amenities. They’re not doing so because of the nature of competition. They understand implicitly that if they’re not on the fast track, they’re going to be on the slow track. And it’s not because of anything nefarious on the part of the company-it’s the nature of competition these days.
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