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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should manage childcare for RTO the same way you manage it for WFH. You are not supposed to be dropping off and picking up on the clock. Nor are you supposed to be caring for your kids at home. You were supposed to have a childcare plan this whole time. WFH is not your childcare plan. Why are you just now trying to figure it out.[/quote]

What folks here are talking about is added commute time and inability to find extended care. 2 hours and 10 minutes for me per day thanks to RTO. Most aftercare programs are full or there is no before/aftercare and your only option is to find someone privately, which is nearly impossible between the hours of 5-7am or 3-6pm. My kids are on the bus by 06:30am and they get home at 3pm. That is 8 full hours plus 30 minute lunch.   Now we split time. One parent stays behind and gets kids on the bus, while the other one gets up at 4am and out of the door by 04:45am to be home by the time the bus gets there at 3pm. [/quote]

It's even worse when your kids don't have a bus. My kids are 8-3pm. Kids used to just walk home and I was teleworking. They played with their friends until I got off at 4. The drama I've had to endure from them going to after school daycare has been unbearable. It's also an extra $800 a month for 1.5 hours of care a day ($100 a week per kid). I promised them I'd figure it out, so I'm going to try working 6-2:30pm.

I also think full time remote work wasn't working for my agency. I'm a manager and had numbers to show it, so did other managers. 50% however, worked great. It was ideal from both employee and agency perspective. We had in person meetings, but also had silent, at home days to get our work done. [/quote]

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