Babies in the Workplace

hold her as he regularly did throughout the day. By the time Brian moved to the Kansas Corporation Commission, he was
such a big supporter of babies in the workplace that he spearheaded the implementation of a similar program at the Commission.

Happy Babies

   It turned out that the overwhelming majority of the babies in these programs cried very infrequently and were actually extremely content. Nathan Schmidt, of Schools Financial, said that when the policy was first implemented:

   the managers were really concerned,
   especially in branch locations--about the
   money, the members, the teller lines. They
   said it wouldn't work. But it does work.

   Debbie Butler, from Valley Credit Union, said, "In the past, people thought there

make the most of it. He realized that the
legal department was the best place to test the program, since two attorneys
were pregnant at the time. So, a few months later, the first baby came to work, and Brian quickly became the program's biggest supporter. He discovered he was "the biggest sap in the world" when it came to these work babies. The first baby spent a lot of time in her walker and regularly would travel from her mother's cubicle to Brian's office to visit him. His secretary's work area had a low wall which she could see over into his office.

One day, the secretary heard Brian saying things like, "Go away. I'm not doing it. You may as well just go away." But his secretary couldn't see anyone in his office. For a few minutes, she thought he had gone crazy and was talking to himself. Then she realized that the baby was in her walker in Brian's office doorway, with her arms outstretched for Brian to