Comments on: Life Outside the Cube http://www.careerlifeconnection.com/blog/2009/02/18/life-outside-the-cube/ The quest for flexibility in a rigid world Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:54:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alun Evans http://www.careerlifeconnection.com/blog/2009/02/18/life-outside-the-cube/#comment-20 Alun Evans Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:08:17 +0000 http://www.careerlifeconnection.com/blog/?p=127#comment-20 Well my days are open...and i watch www.iwearyourshirt.com at 3pm...i go to the gym at 4pm and i work around those two. Well my days are open…and i watch http://www.iwearyourshirt.com at 3pm…i go to the gym at 4pm and i work around those two.

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]]> By: Penelope Trunk http://www.careerlifeconnection.com/blog/2009/02/18/life-outside-the-cube/#comment-16 Penelope Trunk Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:01:48 +0000 http://www.careerlifeconnection.com/blog/?p=127#comment-16 I can tell who has a flexible job and kids by the flow of email into my in box. Each night, there is a lull at dinnertime and then a surge around 9pm, when people start getting their kids to bed. Flexibility has allowed parents to stop working when their kids get out of school and start up again when they go to bed. It makes sense to run a workday this way anyway. The old way -- 9-5 seems leftover from agrarian times when people worked during daylight. Penelope I can tell who has a flexible job and kids by the flow of email into my in box. Each night, there is a lull at dinnertime and then a surge around 9pm, when people start getting their kids to bed.

Flexibility has allowed parents to stop working when their kids get out of school and start up again when they go to bed. It makes sense to run a workday this way anyway. The old way — 9-5 seems leftover from agrarian times when people worked during daylight.

Penelope

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