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Article: Today's workplace is about flexibility.(Cover story)
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- Financial Executive
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- April 1, 2009
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When CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta very publicly withdrew his name from consideration for the job of serving as surgeon general of the United States in the Obama administration, he said it was due to expecting a third baby and wanting to spend time with his family. He didn't want to live in Washington, D.C., and commute home only on weekends to be with his family.
This work/life--or rather life/work--decision is happening more and more as the contract between employers and their professional employees is being redefined.
This is a very real requirement for every organization to realize: it's not managing in the same world it was 10 ...