May 12, 2003

Dual-earner couples, facing a layoff, more
Posted by deisenhart@bostonworks.com">Douglas Eisenhart at 4:48 PM -

From BostonWorks in the Boston Sunday Globe this week:

At the work-family conference in Boston last weekend, cosponsored by the Brandeis University Community, Families & Work Program, and by Boston University's journalism school, Barry Bluestone, director of the Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, reported that the time squeeze falls hard on two-earner couples juggling work schedules, day-care pickups, and children's sick days.

"Living on the edge of a layoff" reports one couple's means of coping with an impending job loss.

Our regular column "Out in the Field" reports: women's workforce presence is stronger, but pay still lags; more employers base perks on performance; many execs expect the economy to improve in the 2d half of the year.

The Job Doc says an inventive search strategy can clinch an offer.

"All work and no play make Jack a dull boy", so take your toys to work with you, exhorts this week's View from the Cube contributor.

Read all this week's BostonWorks stories in the Globe.

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