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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah pretty sure it was "take your kid to work" day back when I was a kid in the 1990s.  In the past decade at my workplace it's always been "take your kid to work".[/quote]

It was Take your Daughter to Work Day from 1992 to 2002. It became Take our Children to Work day officially in 2003. However, a lot of companies started letting boys come in the 1990s.

We had it Daughters only the first few years at Stock Exchange.

I find it a great loss. My daughter went in 2010 at age of 8 and by then it was a bunch of screaming 7-10 year olds in room with boys not particularly suited to sit still in a chair all day and girls of that age not much better. She turned down going the next year as it was for babies.

[b]As opposed to 1995 when we literally had a professional event with the women (not little girls) in business outfits. The teenagers attending a professional run event. Kick off meeting CEO, formal Breakfast, formal Agenda for day, meeting all department heads, tours. And a full day. And parents not even there except lunch. They took the Daughters at start of day. They met the  CEO of Stock Exchange that day, toured the trading floor, went to command center, toured Data Centers. Each area HR, Audit, Market Operations, IT, Finance all did sessions on what it is like working in their area and what a career in their area was like. At lunch break you could take your Daughters out to Lunch and then expense it and walk them around. A lot took Daughter to Harry's for lunch where the power brokers eat lunch. Even more fun at 8am program started and all the daughters got to put on trading jackets and do mock trading on floor of NYSE and get their picture on podium pretending to ring opening bell.  [/b]

Last time any company I worked at did it was 2015. Been ten years since I have even seen it done.     The watering down to allow boys to attend and make the ages younger ruined it.         [/quote]

Who has time to plan all that on top of their actual job? The reality is that most places don't do it because no one wants to plan a full day or meaningful activities for teens that may or may not be interested in doing them. [/quote]

At the NYSE we had a whole HR and Training Department that handled this event on their calendar. People on trading floor they arranged lunch in house as they cant go out or if you wanted and a support function could take kid out to lunch and expense. We did events almost every day, bell ringing, IPOs so why not for our own employees daughters.

On a side note I actually hired a summer intern a wonderful first generation college student from Brooklyn who grew up in an apt in a not so great part of Brooklyn who was at take our Daughter to Work day a few years earlier. Dad worked in something like keying trade tickets back when more manual. She was my summer intern in college, nice women. I offered her a job post graduation but she actually declined, wanted to go straight to MBA and become a Financial Analyst. I know she graduated and got a job Federal Reserve and lost touch.

But we had Take Your Daughter to Work Day, Summer Internships, Management Training Programs new hires, we routinely let HS and College students come by for guided tours, we paid for College and MBAs for employees. We even had a wonderful cafeteria, shoeshine guy, free doctor on site if you were sick or needed a checkup. They paid for my MBA. And we had trainers come in and do real training.

My 35 year old Female Boss when I was 29 actually worked at NYSE part time in HS, went to a local college while working part time, graduated college by 24 and was in charge of a Dept by 34. We invested in these things.

Today it is all gone. At least CEO at NASDAQ and President of NYSE are both women. The speech given in 1993 that the women in the room today will one day be our future leaders was true.

By 2005 was children at a pizza party at take your children to work day and by 2020 done at nearly every company.

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Cool story. Most workplaces do not have the budget or the bandwidth for these events. [/quote]

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