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“Mayer, it turns out, was wrong about the 1am phone calls. Katy loved her job and didn’t mind staying up late to help out. What was bothering her was something entirely different. Often, Katy confessed, she showed up late at her children’s events because a meeting went on overly long, for no important reason other than meetings tend to. And she hated having her children watch her walk in late. So Mayer instituted a rule: if Katy had told her earlier that she had to leave at four, then Mayer would make sure Katy could leave at four. Even if there were only five minutes left to a meeting, even if Google co-founder Sergey Brin himself was mid-sentence and expecting an answer from Katy, Mayer would say, “Katy’s got to go”, and Katy would walk out of the door and answer the questions later by email after the kids were in bed.”
Women at work: ‘Forget the balance. This is the merge’ | Money | The Guardian
Stephanie Booth is a freelance internet geek who lives in Lausanne, Switzerland. Digital Crumble is where she dumps all sorts of interesting stuff she finds online.
