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Monica Burch: 'the culture here suits me'

There’s still this attitude that working reduced hours means you’re not committed. For the last few years I’ve taken additional amounts of time off to fit in with my children’s school holidays. It’s something I wish I’d been brave enough to have done at a much earlier stage. I suppose I thought that showing anything which could have been perceived as weakness may have inhibited my career. But in hindsight I think I should have just said, “This is what I’m going to do. If I’m still valuable to you, great. If not, well, see you later.”

Full post as published by International and UK Law on August 11, 2008 (boomark / email).