Therefore, in designing work arrangements we must consider how the work arrangements effect the family and how the family effects the work arrangements. Every employee, whether a parent or not, has and should have responsibilities, desires and interests that extend beyond the workplace. We should make it possible for people to make their life their career, not their career their life. Women are needed in responsible positions in the workplace, and men need to participate in the raising of children. Business and society benefit when women and men perform both career and nurturing roles.
Family is as important as work.
Designing work arrangements and work processes with the needs of America's children and America's working parents in mind is good for business. Ultimately we need to rethink how we define career and personal success. The traditional national definition of success has been largely a male definition based upon the notion that success is best measured by salary, title, position, and number of levels from ones position to the top of the organizational hierarchy. Such a definition of success doesn't make sense anymore. Salaries have become highly variable.