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In Pictures: Best in Class - Flex in Practice

In Pictures: Best in Class - Flex in Practice

Flexibility might mean working a teacher-like schedule, taking a year off, or working part time during a time of family crisis. These top companies know what it means to be flexible.


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Best in Class: Flex in Practice - Baptist Health South Florida

Fifteen percent of the women who were promoted at Baptist Health South Florida worked a part-time schedule in 2008.
Photo:   April Hughes, infection control practitioner, and her husband Kenneth Hughes, biomedical engineering technician coordinator, work at Homestead Hospital and have used the flexibility and support provided when dealing with family health issues.

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