We have to support families where families are. Some are frightened of the prospects. Still, she calls her employer her family. Today, she does her dry cleaning, car tune-ups, film developing, exercising, and much more at the shops tucked along the company's labyrinthian corridors. When she's not at work, where she's the marketing manager for cereals, O'Grady socializes almost entirely with workmates.
Corporate conveniences are no doubt a godsend for many.
Few people are home during the day to take care of chores, as our Moms were. Plus, Americans work an average of 46 hours a week, so have little time to shop, cook or fix things once they do get home. USAA offers employees free shots for their children, work-site neck and back massages that cost only a pittance, and maintains manicured fields where they can play softball. Nusbaum uses the dry cleaner at work even though it's more expensive because other cleaners are closed by the time she finishes work. Several times a week, she confesses with reluctance, she takes packaged cafeteria dinners home for her teen-age son.