Workplace Reimagined - Accommodating Our Bodies and Our Lives

"This book demonstrates that the inflexibility of most workplaces is not only harmful to marginalized employees, but ultimately harmful to everyone. It then proposes a detailed solution: a two-part proposal that would allow us to reimagine the workplace in a way that benefits everyone"--

List of contents

1. Introducing a workplace reimagined; 2. The caregiver conundrum; 3. People with disabilities in the workplace; 4. Intersections; 5. The entrenchment of structural norms; 6. Special treatment stigma; 7. Theoretical and practical justifications for the reimagined workplace; 8. The workplace reimagined Part I. Tackling Time Off; 9. The workplace reimagined Part II. Accommodating Our Bodies and Our Lives.

About the author

Nicole Buonocore Porter is a Professor of Law and Director of the Martin H. Malin Institute for Law and the Workplace at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology. As an expert in employment discrimination and disability law, Porter has authored or co-authored five books, and over 45 law review articles and essays.

Summary

This book demonstrates that the inflexibility of most workplaces is not only harmful to marginalized employees, but ultimately harmful to everyone. It then proposes a detailed solution: a two-part proposal that would allow us to reimagine the workplace in a way that benefits everyone.

Foreword

Proposes reimagining the workplace to account for the diversity, the reality, and the precarity of our lives and bodies.

Product details

• Authors: Nicole Buonocore Porter, Nicole Buonocore (Chicago-Kent College of Porter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781009347464
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0934746-4
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; USA, LAW / Labor & Employment, United States of America, USA, Personnel & human resources management, Personnel and human resources management, Employment & Labour Law, Employment and labour law: general