Would You Like to Have a Second Designer in Your Position?

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i am thinking about what it would be like to have a substitute in my position. i could imagine taking two weeks vacations and not given it a second thoughtr. I just think it would require a lot of redundancy that we're not used to. But the other thing for organizations is, this kind of arrangement does carry an administrative burden,. Yes. And i think a cost, right? Absolutely.

One way to help close the gender earnings gap? Deliberate redundancy at work, according to economic historian Claudia Goldin. Claudia expands on this idea and shares other insights about the U.S. female labor force. Emily and the Amys reflect on the career-family decisions they’ve made (or plan to make) and imagine what it would be like to have a colleague who could fill in for them whenever they needed time off.