This week, team Josie had the chance to comment on caregiving as an identity, a critical topic that has come up in so many of our employer conversations. We are tremendously grateful to S. Mitra Kalita and the team at Charter for this opportunity to be featured! Click here for the full article and see select quotes […]
To: The working parent who has had to allow extra screen time lately… From: Celina, Josie Mental Health Coach I want to address a common topic that has come up from many of the working parents in our community: screen time. The situation Your child is home sick from daycare. You’re working from home but […]
What an incredible week it has been for our team! First, on Wednesday, we had the honor and privilege to join an incredible lineup of speakers at Charter’s Future of the Workplace Summit. Then on Thursday, our very own CFO Zach Hafner had the amazing opportunity to give a guest lecture at Harvard’s School of […]
It is time to move past “win-loss” thinking, reframe the conversation, and together make progress by building parental leave programs rooted in advancing our shared values. In recent weeks, the topic of parental leave has shown up in multiple public forums, most notably in this Wall Street Journal article and this one from Glamour. […]
Last week, we celebrated National Working Parents Day, and it was such a treat to see the response! It’s not often that we pause and think about how our various roles and identities as a working parent can complement one another – more often we think about them in discrete buckets, separate lives and existences […]
Friday, September 16 is National Working Parents Day For the team at Josie, National Working Parents Day is kind of our Thanksgiving – a perfect opportunity to pay our respects and reflect on how far things have come in recent years. We can imagine there may be some out there who are wondering, do working […]
(hot tip: it can be more than just “survive.”) I worked in strategy consulting for almost 15 years. There were so many things I loved about it, but my favorite part was getting to help others put structure around complex problems and craft the right messaging to garner support for their plans – a vision. […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about transitions lately. And I don’t just mean the return of pumpkin spice lattes (even though I am incredibly excited about that!). Maybe it’s experiencing the first hints of fall, children walking to school outside my window, or the pumpkins outside my local grocery store (seriously? They seem to appear […]
There is a lot of swirl right now about the recent Wall Street Journal article about companies cutting back on parental leave. While we’re still digging into the Wall Street Journal data, what’s most important are the issues it surfaces… and we can’t help but seize this opportunity to jump start a conversation about these […]
In line with National Breastfeeding Month, this week we are highlighting both the challenges and opportunities (BREAST practices, anyone?!) associated with breastfeeding and pumping during the return-to-work transition. On a personal note, breastfeeding was hugely challenging for me. I never produced much milk and found the whole experience to be exhausting. I also experienced D-MER […]
