Employers have a choice: they can continue to insist on a straight career path that leads to an up-or-out destination or they can adjust the traditional career path to try to address changes in workforce demographics, attitudes, and family structures.

The Opt-In project came to New York to hold a roundtable discussion with businesses who have chosen the latter path - mapping out the new ways to look at careers.  In this episode we recap our New York roundtable and hear from Anne Weisberg, Senior Advisor to Deloitte & Touche LLP Women's Initiative, and co-author of the book, Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace with Today’s Nontraditional Workforce (HBS Press, 2007), who outlines the successes that Deloitte has had by moving the corporate ladder model of career progression into a corporate lattice.™

Laila Worrell, Head of Accenture’s New York Women’s Initiative, also shares with us how Accenture is implementing a program of creating “on-ramps” to bring women and men back into the workforce.