Business & Tech
'Work From Home' No Panacea For Best Buy Families
Parents saw no real change in the amount of family time they had available.
Until recently, one of the hottest trends in corporate America was "flexible working arrangements"—a fancy way of saying "work from home"—even Richfield-based Best Buy got in on the act.
The company recently pulled the plug on what they called their "Results-Only Environment" after disappointing results and, according to Business Week, all that flexibility didn't even help the families of the office workers it was supposed to benefit.
A new study, the magazine reports, shows that corporate workers saw no significant increase in the amount of time they spent with their children while using the flexible work setup. The study followed 225 parents across the company. During the experiment , mothers and fathers saw their children around 36.4 hours per week and 26.6 hours per week, respectively.
There was one silver lining in the otherwise-disappointing numbers: mothers felt like they were able to spend more quality time with their children (fathers reported no real difference).
Read the rest at BusinessWeek.com
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