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From January to April 15, Steve Lerner rarely saw his spouse while working at an accounting firm. When he started his new role at consultancy Accenture nearly 10 years ago, all that changed, and he got the work-life flexibility he badly wanted.
Lerner is part of the growing wave of men who seek as much work-life balance as their female counterparts, and that comes as a surprise to the employer world, according to a survey from World-atWork and WFD Consulting.
Kalish is a fomer managing editor of SourceMedia’s Employee Benefits Group.
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