Babies in the Workplace

their companies were colicky. Willie
attributed this to the fact that, "the only time the babies were not being held was when they were asleep." Carolyn said
that, "They have their mom and everyone else. They feel that they are loved."

The concept of babies in the office probably sounds impossible in a culture in which hundreds of books have been written on how to deal with your crying baby, and the possibility of having a colicky baby fills new parents with dread. But it turns out that there are a surprising number of parallels between the average office workplace and societies in which colic doesn't exist and a screaming baby is unheard-of (see the Why It Works section if you're curious).

were certain departments in which having
a baby wouldn't work at all." But, she said, over the eight years of the program, people in many of those "inappropriate"
positions brought in their babies, and now she thinks that, "Most positions are feasible for having a baby." As an example, she mentioned that people used to think that it would be impossible to have a baby in the IT (computer) department. Then one of the programmers proved that assumption wrong by bringing his daughter to work with him three days a week. He simply wore the baby in a front carrier or backpack while he worked at the computer.

Deborah Driskill, of CDG & Associates, noted that, "the babies were not very fussy, because they were with their mothers." Carolyn Gable of New Age Transportation, and Willie Jones of Magical Journey Bookstore, both commented that none of the babies who came to work at