9 MAY2022IN FOCUSWOMEN ARE HESITANT TO ASK FOR MORE FLEXIBILITY BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID OF BEING EXCLUDED, BEING PASSED OVER FOR PROMOTIONS, HAVING TO WORK OVERTIME, TAKING SALARY CUTS, AND BEING TREATED UNFAVOURABLY BY THEIR BOSSESto the widespread stigma surrounding career breaks among recruiters and employers, making it difficult for every second (50 percent) working woman in India to explain her leave to recruiters. As a result, many people choose to leave career breaks off their CVs (42 percent), or mislead to potential recruiters about them during interviews (35 percent). Forced to keep their professional breaks hidden from recruiting managers, 80 percent of working women in India want for strategies to better represent their breaks to hiring managers.When the women's entrepreneur team approached Sonya Khandelwal (Entrepreneur/Life Coach/Motivational Speaker/Founder, Etheralsonia) for inputs to the article titled `Most Effective Strategies to Improve Women's Performance at Work', she said, "Flexible work timings, monthly days offs, and other aspects can make a Happy Workplace. Allowing employees the comfort of working from home as an option is another small but impactful benefit. On days when they're not in a state to reach office, or need to rejuvenate & take a day to themselves, working from home can help them without them worrying about losing their leave balance". In the past, it was expected that women would be the ones to request work flexibility during an interview. That is no longer the case. Both men and women desire flexible schedules among today's sophisticated job candidates. When both men and women seek for work flexibility, it dispels the myth that only women require it because they are frantic to balance the demands of work and family life. In essence, it enables hiring managers to assess job candidates based on their potential, understanding that work flexibility is now a requirement for all employees irrespective of gender.
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