And in doing so, Sheridan and his cofounders hit upon the very keys to wresting the moribund American workplace out of the 1950s: Don’t just write a policy or spout off a slick-sounding mission statement yet still secretly expect people to work the same workaholic way. Don’t come up with a program for flexible work or reduced hours to “help” working families but really expect only mothers to take advantage of them and, if they do, see them as less committed and less intelligent, and shunt them to the side. Instead, think big. Start fresh. Include everybody. The saner twenty-first-century
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