Workplaces have increasingly been open to allowing pets in the office at least on occasion as a way to offer employees stress relief and improve mental health.
But what about bringing your infant to work? It’s a much rarer perk that is now being offered by Milford-based manufacturer Bead Industries as a way to help working mothers who can get exhausted and stressed from the responsibilities of being a parent and working full time, according to CEO Jill Mayer.
After a half-century of decline in the sector, local, state and federal lawmakers are working to revive Connecticut’s industrial base. But without a next-generation workforce to feed those green shoots, they could dry up.
When Jill Mayer graduated from high school in 1999, career options felt more limited than what she sees available to today’s 18-year-olds. There was a “stigma,” Mayer said, “that if you don’t get a college degree you’re not going to be able to make good money and have a long career.”