Having children may mean that a mom would have to give up her professional career in order to take care of her kids. However, this no longer has to be the case because mothers can now work in their own time with The Second Shift, which will pair them with companies looking for reliable freelancer workers.
Friends Jenny Galluzzo and Gina Hadley, who are mothers themselves, founded the Second Shift. They have also enlisted the help of friend and fellow mom Kemp Steib to be their CFO.
The goal was fairly simple when they first began running their own company. What they set out for was to give women with experience and marketing some part time work and additional income.
Galluzzo and Hadley started The Second Shift when they saw friends and colleagues stepping down from their position at work, which they have worked very hard for, in order to pursue motherhood full-time or because they did not want to be away from their newborn due to spending the entire day at the office. Now they make the work of new mothers more flexible thanks to their service.
Since the company's inception, they now have 300 members whom they have connected with 45 project-based jobs. They also have 500 potential members currently in the application process, awaiting approval. A lot of notable companies are looking into hiring employees from The Second Shift. Recently, professionals from Condé Nast and Google attended a mixer hosted by the service.
Membership to The Second Shift is completely free of charge. "The Second Shift makes money when a job is successfully matched; employers pay 15 percent of the total fee on top of the agreed-upon salary, and members have 5 percent deducted from their payment as a service fee," as said in a report on The New York Times.
