Increasing numbers of City high-flyers are opting to spend more time with their children – without losing career momentum, and with the blessing of their employers. Viv Groskop meets the men who are following the ‘daddy track’
Nine o’clock on a Friday morning and Antony Rush, a senior executive with an investment bank, is stressed and itching to get to his BlackBerry. He has four half-hour conference calls in his morning schedule and a stack of reports to read. But this is work with a difference. He will be holding his meetings over the phone from his Tunbridge Wells townhouse in his suede slippers, creased cargo pants and a surfing T-shirt that his one-year-old daughter has just decorated with regurgitated milk. Because on Fridays, he works from home – with the stairgate firmly closed so that his three-year-old son can’t climb up to daddy’s office.
