Recently a new set of recommendations were sent out by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regarding “best practices” that companies should follow when it comes to care taking. In the article Care taking is described as someone who has the responsibility of take care of either a child or an aging parent/grandparent. In the article they focus on the constraints that occur for individuals that need to take care of another person. With trying to balance work along with family it can become quite difficult. Now that the overall working population consists of 46% of women something like this needed to be published for individuals and businesses to refer to. When thinking about this sort of thing, it definitely needs to be considered what kinds of individuals are affected. As we move more and more down the road of our current recession, the article points out a great point in my opinion. Women more and more are becoming breadwinners of the home. The reason for this is during the current recession a lot of the positions that have been effected were investment bankers and construction workers; which as we know both positions are mainly fulfilled by male employers. This sort of flexibility has been recommended for quite some time by the different government agencies. I know that more and more of them are recommending flex locations allowing people to work from home or out of remote offices that may be closer to home. I can say that because of these recommendations it has helped my family out quite a bit. Prior to last May, my other had to care for my grandma as she had the highest stage of ALS possible. With this disease she dealt with taking her too many doctor appointments, along with having to care for her on many different levels. Because of this flexibility she was able to move her schedule around and help accommodate the needs of her mother. I am definitely a big fan of the program mainly because of that.
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