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[quote=Anonymous]My husband and I both work hybrid, so someone is always home.

Full RTO would be very challenging for us. Right now, whoever is WFH each day can walk the kids to school and be back in time to start work at 9. Then can leave right at 5 to get the kids from aftercare at 5:15 and be home by 5:30. The person in the office has a 40 min commute (ours are essentially the same) so is out of the house from 8:20-5:40. It works out well. We do pay for aftercare, which theoretically goes until 6, and we pay for childcare for all the random days off school (weird holidays/teacher workdays/etc) so that wouldn’t change. But they’d have to be in before school care too and in aftercare longer too if we were back in the office full time. That would cost us only slightly more, but would be a huge negative for the kids, being at school prob 8:15-5:30 instead of their current 8:45-5. That’s already a long day for preschool and early elementary kids. An extra hour and we’d barely see them!

Also, when a kid is sick, our kids at least just turn into sleepy, feverish puddles, so it’s easy to set them up in front of the TV and still work a full day. I don’t know what the heck we’d do if we were both full time in the office. It’d be so many days off!

Plus - when they have special events at school (thanksgiving potluck lunch, assemblies when the kids are singing, etc) one of us can almost always step away for an hour or two, using our lunch break or maybe working an hour after bedtime. If we were in the office all the time, we’d miss all that.

So it’s be a huge logistical headache, decrease in our quality of life, decrease in the kids quality of life, cost more, and for what? Ugh.

Luckily, neither of our companies are even considering RTO, so it’s a non-issue for us. [/quote]

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