The new feature will especially benefit women, who are more likely to have resumé gaps With the global pandemic and the other assorted issues of the last two years, a record number of women are dropping out of the workforce. At the same time, millions of other workers are leaving their careers as part of the Great Resignation, for a variety of reasons, ranging from burnout to childcare responsibilities to returning to school. One positive to such career chaos is that LinkedIn has stepped up and developed a new feature that allows users to label and explain career breaks — and even brag about t ..read more

This new mom and her mini-meteorologist sidekick are warming hearts while delivering a frigid forecast Being a working mom isn’t for the faint of heart. But being a new working mom fresh off of maternity leave — with bad news to break? You have our thoughts and prayers. But luckily, meteorologist and new mom Rebecca Schuld didn’t need it and cleverly used being the mom of a precious 13-week-old daughter to her advantage: by using her adorable little one to soften the blow as she shared a particularly miserable weather forecast. Meteorologist Rebecca Schuld, of CBS Milwaukee affiliate WDJT, br ..read more

Drew Barrymore opens up about dating with two young daughters Drew Barrymore may be a talk show host whose job it is to get her guests to open up and be vulnerable, but in a recent episode of The Drew Barrymore Show with Queer Eye star Bobby Berk, Barrymore got real when the topic turned to dating as a single mom, with Barrymore admitting, through tears, that she doesn’t “know how to date with kids.” Barrymore shares two daughters with ex-husband Will Kopelman — Olive, 9, and Frankie, 7 — and shared that she’s been single in the six years since their divorce and has only gone on “occasional” d ..read more

Jessica Chastain made child care a priority on the set of her latest movie Jessica Chastain produces and stars in a new action-packed spy movie that’s all about female power, but the equality didn’t just stop on screen. The 355 stars Chastain, along with Diane Kruger, Lupita Nyong’o, Penélope Cruz, and Fan Bingbing as badass secret agents with a plan to thwart World War 3, but it would kind of just be lip-service if the film was stacked with awesome women, but didn’t empower them behind the scenes. Knowing there were a lot of working parents on the set of the film, Chastain put a tra ..read more

In a world where we work remotely and take our jobs on the go, is it really a surprise that many of us have a difficult time fully disconnecting from work? I mean, you have the ability to email, log in, and have the entire world wide web at your fingertips. Why wouldn’t you want to use all those tools to be more productive?  Well, as it turns out if 2020 was the year of pivoting, 2021 was the year of burnout. And spoiler alert, spinning on this never-ending, constantly changing hamster wheel for the last two years has left us depleted. Hella exhausted on all fronts, y’all ..read more

Every aspect of our existence was impacted when COVID-19 hit. The pandemic changed so much of our lives, every aspect. Our kids were rerouted from their classrooms in their respective schools to their makeshift desks in the dining room with one or both parents as their teacher, parent, and lunchroom supervisor. Organizations and companies across the country had to figure out how everyone could best do their job remotely in the face of the pandemic. All the while, they also had to figure how to give moms, in particular, the flexibility they needed to wear all these hats. Over the last year and ..read more

In the beginning of 2020 I had been at a new job for just barely three months. It was one that I had been applying to for quite some time and my training ended right in the middle of the 2019 holiday season. The benefits of my new employment were ones my family would use constantly, and I knew that even with it being a part-time position, it was one that would pay off. Three months into 2020, as coronavirus swept the United States, I walked out of my office doors and I have not been back since. As a mom of two, with children that would now be home for the entire day, I had no choice but to lea ..read more

It’s not news that the rest of the world is leaps and bounds ahead of the U.S. when it comes to workplace policies. Many countries have laws in place to protect employees and give them paid leave. But in a truly groundbreaking move, Portugal made work-life balance a reality by banning bosses from getting on employees’ cases after hours. They aren’t just making promises to quell the masses, they’ve put their intentions into law, and damnit, every other country should follow suit.  Yes, you read that right. Portugal has unlocked the real key to work-life balance by ..read more

Her video shows new motherhood in a series of compelling data points Those of us who have taken any amount of maternity leave know just how much is involved in bringing home a baby. There’s the feeding, changing, lack of sleep, learning a new schedule and person, all while trying to heal from birth. One mom decided to track all of the effort on an app and present it to her coworkers who were wondering how her maternity leave was going. The now-viral TikTok video shows just how much support a new mom needs during the first few months of a newborn’s life. Kristen Cuneo shared it on her husband’s ..read more

The five-day workweek grind is so ingrained in American culture that it’s hard to imagine something else. But does it have to be that way? Why couldn’t we have a four-day workweek? In the midst of the pandemic, as employers and employees navigate this new workplace, several companies — such as Kickstarter and technology company Bolt — are moving to a four-day workweek. There’s even a campaign underway from 4 Day Week Global to get more companies to get on board with the new schedule. 4 Day Week Global is a nonprofit community that was established to “provide a platform for like-minded people w ..read more