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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not an issue for me because my kids are in high school but anyone who doesn’t understand how a schedule can work with working from home and not with commute added is bad at math.

For example - one parent can drop the kids off at school on the way to work or before starting their day at home because their work day starts at 9. Other parent works from home  and works eg 7-3:30 or 6:30-3:00 and can go pick the kids up when school lets out or wait for them to come home from the bus/walk home etc - by the time school is over/kids are home, their workday is done.

That schedule does NOT work if both parents work outside the home full time. It can work if both stagger their hybrid days or one who deals with kids who come come works full time at home and the one who drops off full time in the office or w/e.

(And that’s not taking into account places that allow maxiflex or tweens who may not be great to be left home by themselves for hours but are fine to entertain themselves when home or to be home alone for half an hour or so, or other situations where the extra added commute time has a major effect.)

Can people make it work? Sure, when my kids were little, we made it work without much of a hybrid schedule (tho even then I had one day per week of telework - and I’ve had that since at least 2009) but there is no reason to make people’s lives harder just because. When I had my kids, there was no paid maternity leave either but it would be ridiculous for me to object to people having it now because I didn’t get to.[/quote]

Dual fed family here. We have two kids in pre-K. I do drop off (school starts at 8:30) and then metro to Union Station. My wife does pickup (aftercare ends at 6pm). So far I’ve come home just after my kids finish dinner. Not a huge deal.

I will need to take leave when my wife goes on long work trips (which is a frequent occurrence). I’ve been told that for one upcoming trip I can’t ad hoc telework for “too many” multiple afternoons in a row to manage pickups.

RTO is manageable, but not adding value. I went three of the five days last week without really talking to anyone in person. On another day we also spent nearly minutes fiddling with conference room technology before just deciding to keep doing virtual meetings from our desks. I have a good boss and have a lot of vacation time so don’t really want to leave. However I’ve started to browse job listings given that the SEC isn’t as appealing as it once was with the pay increases being pared back, benefits cut/restored/cut again, etc, etc. I’m waiting to see what Atkins does, and what reorganization plans are in the works before deciding to go all out on job applications. [/quote]

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