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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know any parents skipping daycare but know several who gave up afterschool care (and they can definitely afford it). They also take an hour each day (outside of lunch) to pick their kids up at school and walk them home (but still log off at 5-5:30).

It’s frustrating to see as someone with kids who does the right thing, but I don’t work for their employers. If these are your coworkers, complain if it’s impacting you. Otherwise just smile politely when they complain about not getting raises or watch as their career stall. [/quote]

Maybe it’s time to reevaluate priorities and see that a walk with your kids is more meaningful than achieving some made up goals at work.
Unless you are a doctor or teacher or someone like that, your job can wait [/quote]

Don’t be stupid or disingenuous. Nobody gives a flying F if you are picking your kids up at school if you aren’t (1) saying you are not available for a meeting or delaying a deadline to do so or (2) are making up that time somewhere else. But the clean implication from the post is that these folks are not making up the time.

Making up all these excuses for those who abuse telework is going to hurt parents in the long run. I am really lost on how so many women fail to see that. The only reason I can come up with is that they are the ones intentionally abusing the situation and really don’t give a crap how it affects others.

I want parents to have flexibility that I did not have raising my kids. But just as some people abused telework during the pandemic and created scenarios where others need to RTO, so to will these parents hamper progress on by abusing WFH. [/quote]

DP. Being “good girls” took parents nowhere. There is only more relaxed flex policies because of a health emergency. 
The key is to not have them taken away again
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I am sorry, what are you talking about?

Things have changed drastically for working parents, setting aside the pandemic. I have college age kids and even pre-pandemic things were improving significantly for parents in the white collar workforce.

The key to not getting things taken away is not to have employees abuse them. Most people are not against granting more parents flexibility. Most managers understand that keeping their best employees who become parents in the workforce is a long term advantage. But the key to retaining flexibility is not abusing it. The reason people have such a strong reaction to workers abusing it is because those are typically the mediocre workers whose action hurt the best working parents who are trying desperately to retain. They aren’t that great at their job, abuse the flexibility and drag everyone else down with them. [/quote]

You do know people only stay 1-3 years in jobs. The company that provides flexibility gets abused. If employees stayed long term I agree [/quote]

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