women in the workforce is partly responsible for corporate America's growing sensitivity to employee needs. Many women find themselves juggling the double burden of household and work responsibilities. Companies are realizing that they play an important role in helping to relieve this burden: "To put it somewhat differently, workers want the workplace to take on some of the attributes of family life" (Dolan, 1996, p. 167).
For many people, not just women, the workplace has become a tyrant, causing employees to feel trapped in their jobs. During the recession of the 1980s and 1990s, people felt they had to work long hours and display a high degree of commitment to their job due to the ever present threat of downsizing and reengineering. Now unemployment is at its lowest in two decades, and employees have ample opportunity to change jobs. Employers know this and are concentrating on ways to strengthen their workers' attachment to the workplace. As one executive put it, "The old values of the Sixties and the Seventies, when men pledged corporations like they pledged fraternities, are long gone" (Dolan, 1996, p. 165).
In the 1990s, the key phrase is "family values." Employees, e
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