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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Staggered schedules.  Before remote work, I went in at 6:45 and was home by 3:45 to do pickup and DH did school drop off at 8 and was home by 7:15.  Our kids are older now, so they can be home alone if needed, but the big issue for us is sports practices. The good news is that DH and I both carried over the max last year and earn 27 days of leave a year so we will be able to take a couple hours of leave each week for emergencies. Additionally, we both accrued quite a lot of sickleave over the past five years because we did not need to take leave when we were sick and could just work from home.  It means that we will plan doctors appointments for days that we otherwise would need to be home. I took some sickleave when I had kids, but DH has probably taken two sick days the entire time he’s been a fed (20 years). [/quote]

Am I the only sucker who took sick leave to be sick and go to (take my kids to) appointments?[/quote]

Nope I also took sick leave, including when I was teleworking and did not have childcare. Like if both my husband and I were teleworking we’d split the day so I’d take sick leave when I was in charge of the kids.[/quote]

Many in my agency put in 50-60 hr weeks, mostly teleworking since our stakeholders are in multiple time zones and countries. We rarely use sick leave for appointments b/c we work more than enough hours to cover 40 hr requirement. Only use sick leave if actually sick and can’t work or we need to be offline for more than half a day.[/quote]

This is PP, yeah I would often be online working while caring for my kids but you are supposed to take sick leave if you don’t have childcare. If it was during core hours, or if I did my catch up work after 10 pm or on the weekends, there is no way to report it on my tine card. Guess I was a sucker for following the rules [/quote]

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