Not only does providing childcare present a solution to one of employees’ most pressing needs, it could also make for better performance among employees. “Corporations need to realize that when they’re helping their employees care for their families, their employees are coming to work with a ...
She planned to stay put when her husband moved to begin a residency program because she liked her job, had childcare that enabled her to work and study, and lived in a supportive community. From her previous experience in Turkey during her husband's residency program she knew she would not...
There is another regime endowed with the power of ordering space and perceptible things (and also their synthesis, the spatial arrangement in which things appear). As I’ve written in the wake of Rancière’s work, that is thepoliceregime. The police regime is a useful and generative catego...
Soon thereafter, I met a 45-year-old single mom who was willing to drill with me on the slippery courts. She was an athletic director at a San Francisco private grade school who used to play basketball. Her job didn't start until 1 pm. We ended up playing for two-and-a-half hours...
Francis Ford Coppola, the film director and winemaker, liked the idea so much that he invested in the company and placed a dispenser at his Cafe Zoetrope in San Francisco. Last month, public libraries in some other cities announced they would be setting them up, too. There is one on the...