October 26, 2004 3:35 PM

Engage a mentor to increase your flexibility
Posted by Diane Danielsonat 3:35 PM

If you're thinking of asking for flextime, or even if you're an employer considering whether to grant an employee flextime, you might want to check with your mentor. Your "flexibility" mentor that is. In Sunday's Balancing Acts, BostonWorks' columnist, Maggie Jackson highlights the connection between flexiblity and mentoring.

Put together flexibility and mentoring - two big guns in any business arsenal - and you have a powerful combination. And that's just what the Department of Labor's Women's Bureau is doing with a ground-breaking program called ''Flex-Options'' that is tackling one of today's most thorny workplace challenges: how to create a flexible business culture.

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