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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apparently I was in the minority, but my ES age kid did aftercare even though we had a hybrid schedule / someone is WFH most days. I don’t want my kid around when I am still working![/quote]

+1. DH and I work in private sector and one or the other is WFH every day. We still have a nanny for after school. If we couldn’t afford a nanny we would have signed up for aftercare at one of the 1,000 karate places or tutoring centers that offers them.

I have a hard time believing all these ESers are so independent after school. The fact is, the WFH parents are barely paying attention to work in the afternoons because they are transporting their children to activities, supervising them at home, etc. Which is fine if they can make it work (eg logging back in at night to compensate). But it’s a benefit they were taking advantage of, not something they were entitled to long term. So they shouldn’t act like the rug was pulled out from under them. They should have had childcare all along.[/quote]

Well said [/quote]

And that’s on a regular school day, which is, at most, 8 months of the year. There are snow days, delayed openings, teacher work days, sick days, long weekends, spring/winter break and summer.  I don’t believe that most WFH parents without childcare are taking leave on those days. I suspect that they are doing the bare minimum at their jobs on those days, and that is the real reason why they are now panicking.  [/quote]

Ugh. I’ll bite on this. When you wfh on a snow day, you can set your school aged child up with a good video, hot cocoa and then go work for a solid chunk of time.
When you work in person on a snow day or delayed opening, either the government is code red which you get paid for if you can’t telework or you call into work and use leave and drink hot cocoa too.

Either way, less work is done with in person office parents than with ones who have telework.

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Snow days (and sick days, within reason) are somewhat unexpected and it’s important to give grace to working parents during that time.

However, I know a few who literally have 0 childcare even afterschool and during school holidays, all of which can be planned for well in advance. So they are distracted during meetings and non-responsive to Slacks. They brute force their work by logging in at night so overall they are average-ish, but it’s really frustrating to work with them bc they slow everyone else down by being so distracted and non-responsive.[/quote]

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