Take parents to work day
“Take Your Parents to Work Day” – It’s like the reverse of a parent-teacher conference, says Mary Heather, 28, an account supervisor with Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide in Manhattan. Only no report card or teeny-tiny chairs.
The idea of the Oct. 1 event is to explain to parents just what their offspring do for eight or more hours a day at work – in Heather’s case, as a healthcare specialist, dealing with language like: “FDA governance, adverse event reporting and program planning with restrictions due to black box warnings.” (And, yes, some explaining of that would be helpful.)
Ogilvy held its first parents’ day in 2007, and you can check out a video from that time in which employees share advice they’ve gotten from their parents and tell just what their parents think they do all day.
“I can tell you that I am excited that both my mom and my dad will be able to finally learn what I do for a living,” says Heather, above left, who on summer vacations during college worked in the Melville office of Right Management, where her dad, Bill Heather, is a senior vice president.
Besides helping parents get a fix on what their grown children do, such an event can “lead to an increased ability for the parents to support and provide ‘coachable moments’ to their children,” says Bill Heather. That and “understand the new world of work and appreciate the differences in how work is performed.”
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