Bringing in Baby: Allowing employees to bring newborns to the office may sound crazy, but
it helped my business thrive. By Gay Gaddis. from FSB Magazine, 05/01/06.
When four executives at Gaddis's ad agency became pregnant at the same time, she decided to invite them to
return to work with their babies. The now $60-a-year company has had 33 in-office babies (and many dogs); company policy allows
parents to bring babies up to 9 months, after which the company arranges for them to be placed on a priority list at a neighborhood
day-care center.
This story also includes a twelve-question quiz to help you decide whether
bringing your baby to work could work for you--sort of reductive (and weirdly focused on the "if you're looking for
a job and hoping to find an employer who will let you bring a baby" angle, which seems a little optimistic even to me),
but they hit some main points. There was also an online poll asking whether companies should let employees bring babies to
work. 65% answered yes.
Brave New Policy: Babies in the Office by Stephanie Clifford. from inc.com, 07/01/06
A
snapshot of a woman who works at a design firm right here in Pittsburgh and brought her baby to work starting at 6 weeks old,
until he was six months old. As of the article's writing, other employees were planning to follow her path.
And here's an explanation of how it worked, from the mother herself and from the perspective
of the head of HR, who helped work out the policy the firm developed: http://foundry.maya.com/googoo/
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