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Making the Workplace Work for Dual-Career Couples

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Making the Workplace Work for Dual-Career Couples

Boston Consulting Group,

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Happy parents are happy employees. To get the most out of your employees with families, help them succeed at home.

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8

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Recommendation

When both parents work, completing mundane tasks – such as going to a piano recital, taking the kids to school or caring for your sick child – can become daunting challenges of coordination. Brooke Allocco, Deborah Lovich, Michelle Stohlmeyer Russell and Frances Brooks Taplett – senior staffers at the Boston Consulting Group – advocate supporting dual-career families to help your employees thrive at work. Their article may be an eye opener for those managers who don’t yet understand why their employees with families look like they’ve done a day’s worth of work by the time they show up at the office.

Summary

Around six in ten American households have two working parents.  Dual-career households are becoming more common as women work a wider variety of jobs and as families require two incomes to cover the costs of living. Millennial men, especially, want to take on more active roles at home. However, many working parents step away from professional aspirations or even drop out of the workforce worrying that they can’t balance the responsibilities at home and at work. One study showed that 60% of nonworking parents don’t work because they don’t have adequate child care...

About the Authors

Brooke Allocco, Deborah Lovich, Michelle Stohlmeyer Russell and Frances Brooks Taplett are senior staff members at Boston Consulting Group, an international consulting firm.

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