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The Miami Herald Workplace Column.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 1998 by Brackey, Harriet Johnson
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 1--IT'S ABOUT TIME: NEW WAYS TO RESHAPE THE WORK WEEK: Like all good ideas, this one was so simple that Deborah K. Holmes of Ernst & Young said she "was astonished no one had thought of it."
As national director of the big accounting firm's Office of Retention, Holmes has often explained the flextime concept in a speech, only to find a couple dozen people waiting for her afterward. They wanted to discuss putting the idea into place in their offices.
With that kind of interest, the option, popular with Ernst & Young employees, is about to be transformed into something that Ernst & Young sells to its clients.
What brought Holmes' audiences to attention is how to manage flexible scheduling. How the...
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