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Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:00 AM

Finding flextime on Wall Street

Many companies want to offer employees family-time flexibility but just can't seem to make it work.

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  • Friday, August 11, 2006 11:14 AM

    The article lost me...

    ...when it began with the story about the investment banker who brought the nanny on the business trip (and made her sit in coach). Why not pick an anecdote about a middle-class woman and her challenges? Maybe something others could more relate to?

    This is yet another example of the Times (along with the Today show and others of that ilk) reporting on what the tips they get from their friends on the Upper East Side. Like the Today show piece about second-hand Prada.

    Hello? Middle America is worrying about how to pay for health care, mortgages, college and these clowns feel it's necessary to tell us about how six-figure-salaried MBAs have it tough? Wake up and smell the Dunkin' Donuts coffee that the rest of us working stiffs drink.

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