How to Make Part Time Work for You

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

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🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Going from full time to part time is a complicated career move. First we talk with a woman who’s made part time work well for her about how she set expectations and boundaries. Then we get advice from an expert on work-life balance on how to manage the risks of being part time. Guests: Kristin McElderry and Linda Duxbury. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

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0:00.0	Harvard Business School Executive Education develops leaders who make a difference in the world.
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0:13.0	Learn more at HBS. Me slash work.
0:17.0	That's HBS. M.E slash work.
0:30.0	Krista McEldery has Fridays off from her job as a management consultant. So that's when our producer Amanda and I met her at her home south of Boston on a beautiful
0:35.1	late summer morning.
0:37.1	We got there just before she pulled into the driveway after dropping her oldest at daycare.
0:41.8	Hello! Hi! after dropping her oldest at daycare. Hi.
0:44.0	No, I just pulled up.
0:46.6	Is it okay to park right there?
0:48.1	Okay.
0:49.1	Yes.
0:50.1	I'm admiring your sunflower.
0:52.2	Oh, thank you.
0:53.0	I'm Amy Gallo, nice to me you.
0:55.0	I'm Amanda.
0:56.0	Hi, I have my control.
0:58.0	That's fantastic. Good to meet you.
0:59.0	I'll let you guys come in and I'll grab the kids really fast out of the car.
1:02.0	As Kristen brought her two younger kids in Sa- grab the kids really fast out of the car.
1:03.0	As Kristen brought her two younger kids inside,
1:05.3	we started setting up mics in her living room.
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