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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH and I both telework full time. His company does not have a physical office and mine is 1.5 hours away. (It used to be 45 mins, but moved.)

Well before Covid I was required to go in once a week. But then I had an injury (while pregnant) and had that requirement waived for two months, took 4 months after my baby was born, and then our new space wasn’t available for us and I was given another year fully remote. I only had a few months commuting 3 hours (round trip) once a week before Covid struck. We were closed with no option to report in person for 2020 and, since we reopened (some time in 2021) I’ve had no reporting requirement but choose to go in roughly once a month.

Our lives are now so built around telework (helps us juggle one daughter’s medical needs and the other’s frequent sports practices) that we would really have to revisit things. Prior to Covid / full telework I worked an 80% schedule (at 80% pay and reduced benefits) to help manage life. Since full telework (during covid) I returned to full time. So I guess at the time that extra day off / extra time was worth about $25k to me. If I returned to having that commute weekly or more, I’d consider going part time again. Given raises, 20% reduction in my income and benefits would be about $30-35k these days. [/quote]

Yet somehow my Dads mom had 8 kids while working full time. You sound lazy.  [/quote]

DP. And my grandparents raised 13 on a my grandpa’s construction workers salary. It was basically poverty, but they did own a very small home, there were a lot of hot dog dinners and no one went to college. They made it work. Conservatives love to put this type of woman on a pedestal, but do not acknowledge the mental and physical toll it takes on women. I don’t call someone lazy just because of not wanting to put themselves through that. [/quote]

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