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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't have school aged kids before telework so what did people do? Did people put their kids in before/aftercare/camps/school for 10 hours a day? How did people find time for extracurriculars if elementary kids are in aftercare until 5:30-6? [/quote]

Yes that’s exactly what parents did. Some families can flex schedules so one parent drops off and goes in later while the other goes in earlier and does end of the day pick up. Others get nannies, after school sitters or use family help.  People do before and aftercare with summer camps and camp selection often was based on work needs not kid preferences.  It was common for people to do some work from home in the evenings or early mornings on those occasions where not everything got completed during the work day. And lots of vacation leave gets sucked up by days off from school if you don’t have childcare that runs during periods when schools are closed.

People who had their kids in 2019 or before would be familiar with this. It’s just going back to pre Covid life. [/quote]

Yes and no. It’s true that we did a lot of those things but there wasn’t zero flexibility for a lot of us even as feds. I’ve had some telework 1-2 days a week for two decades and managers were generally willing to grant situational telework for a week or two in the summer if you had a tough camp schedule that didn’t offer aftercare or something or other similar kinds of flexibilities.[/quote]

Agreed.  DH and I had a lot of flexibility even before COVID and there was plenty of telework/remote work happening.  Obviously not as much as during the pandemic, but it wasn’t at this level.

This tone is also different, too.  At least where we’ve worked, people just want the work to get done.  No one was hovering over us or threatening to report anyone.[/quote]

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