职场妈妈在家办公好处多

职场妈妈在家办公好处多 Society’s been quick to label社会很快的给。。。。贴上标 签 the “stay at home mom”and the “working mother,” but the “work at home mom” is rarely ever mentioned. I’ve been a work at home mom—in some capacity —since my first son was born in 2010. When he was seven months old, I returned to my day job, working part-time. I was directing管理，指 挥 a business development team for a non-profit and—despite the boundaries I had tried to set by reeling卷 back my schedule—people never had a problem calling me on my days off or afte r hours.尽管我尽量划分工作与生活的界限，努力避免日程安排和家庭生活发生 冲突，但是他们还是会在休息日或者下班时间打电话给 我 I couldn’t just “shut off,” so I was inevitably不可避免 的 the mother pushing my son on the swing 秋千 with a phone at my ear. = I had my second baby in 2013 and I decided to leave my job and start my own busi ness. With two other partners, I launched 创立公司 Baby Caravan—a company that helps postpartum产后的 woman navigate(help sb do sth)帮助产后的妇女导航产假问 题 快递公司问题件快递公司问题件货款处理关于圆的周长面积重点题型关于解方程组的题及答案关于南海问题 maternity产妇的 leave 产假问题 and the subsequent后来的 return to work. Having your own business definitely provides flexibility, as well as other advantage s. When I was getting my business off the ground(off the ground 已经开始的，在进行中的)开始进行我的工作的时 候 , my son was three-months-old and I brought him with me everywhere—including the bank while I opened a business account 去银行开户的时候 and to client visits. No one blinked眨眼 an eye没有人会眨眼一 下 ; they understood my need to be both a mother and a business woman. Work at home moms have similar perks 小费，额外的收入 to stay at home moms(A have similar perks to B A享受到和B相似的好处)在家工作的妈妈可以享受到与全职妈妈相似的好 处 . They can attend the pre-school holiday parties学前节日派 对 or pick up a sick child接生病的孩 子 from school and still make it back home for a 1PM conference call. They’re also able to save money on childcare by working evenings and during naps time (somethin g I am doing at this very moment). It’s almost like you get to—dare I say我敢说 —“have it all.” That is, if you don’t mind ending a work call abruptly突然地，唐突的 when you notice that the diaper 尿 布 you thought had at least ten more minutes in it (in尿布，指代换尿布的事情)actually didn’t.如果你不介意突然结束一个工作的电话当你注意到尿布你认为要至少10分钟但是实际上不要 So why don’t more companies employ work at home moms? These are mothers w ho can balance their time平衡他们的时 间 like any other adult. Instead of fitting work between office gossip小道传 闻 , coffee runs and Facebook updates, these women fit it in between naps, docto r appointments, school pickups and childcare relief救济，减轻 .只不过正常上班族是在聊办公室八卦，喝咖啡和更新FaceBook的间隙安排工作，但是在家工作的妈妈们则是在孩子午睡，预约一生，去学校接孩子和照顾孩子的间隙进行工作 For many women, this sort of set-up 这种安排 would be a total dream. They get to spend time with their families while also advancing前进 their careers and contributing financially to their families晋经济上为他们的家庭做出贡 献 . As President Obama mentioned in his State Of The Union address in January, childcare costs are astronomical极大的(养育孩子费用巨 大) . Mothers often leave the workforce not by choice自愿 的, but because it just doesn’t make economic sense to stay经济上不划算 —especially if they have more than one child. Having one parent work from home 父母一方面从事工作 —as a part-time employee or as an entrepreneur—helps families free up空出 来 some of those funds基金. Case-in-point: My husband and I send our 1 1/2 -year-old to daycare托日照顾中 心 two days a week. This is a gigantic巨大 的 expense for us, but it would be even more costly to hire a nanny 保姆 to take care of him throughout the week. As a work at home mom, I can adjust my ho urs to accommodate调解，使适 应 most of my child’s needs. That’s a big deal for my family.这对于我的家庭来 说很有意义 This set-up would allow businesses 公司to keep talented employees 允许公司留 住有天赋的员工who aren’t looking to不乐 意 have their young children in full-time care. Women who are professionally driven will always be driven, no matter where their desk is.想做出一番事业的职业女 性总是干劲十足，这与她们在哪里办公没有关系 As technology advances随着科技的发 展 , the idea of what a typical employee and a normal family look like will continue to change. And businesses need to see that forcing traditional work hours on employees with non-traditional aspirations 愿望 强迫幼者非传统指向的员工遵循创痛 的工作时间 will hurt, not help, the companies in the long-term.