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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, and it is terrible.  We had been going in 2x a week and 1x a week, respectively, so one parent was always home to walk the dog and pick up kids.  Now our children are in beforecare as well as aftercare and we have a dog walker so we can be on Zoom or Teams meetings all day in our offices.[/quote]

So who watched your kids while you were teleworking? You can’t supervise kids who belong in daycare and work at the same time. So you either ripped off the taxpayer with illegal childcare, or neglected your kids. [/quote]

DP but even little kids don’t need to be constantly minded. They can be trained to entertain themselves for an hour or two between 3:30 and when parents finish working. That is not neglect.

A lot of families were hurt by RTO not because of needing actual childcare, but because of transportation issues. [/quote]

But that’s their own fault. Nobody is forcing these people to live hours away from the office. Most people bought homes pre-pandemic and have plenty of equity to move closer to work. They’re just too lazy, holding onto that 2% rate when they should realistically move and let somebody else enjoy that house. And that’s what it is, a house. It’s not a HoMe or a “forever home” or some other BS that’s been sold by realtors since 2020 to get people to overpay for housing.

Live near where you work, with an easy commute. This is the #1 rule for finding housing and how to live a life without being stressed out. Too many people moved far away when they were only on a telework agreement (not remote) and now they’re complaining about their own poor decisions. [/quote]

Ignoring that many people can’t afford to live close to work and don’t have a 100k free a year to throw at private schools for 2 kids….

All of this is likely temporary. You’d be a fool to give up a low rate mortgage in a good school district for this administration. In the coming years telework will likely be reintroduced. Even a day or two a week is a game changer. It’s one thing to commute in 5 days a week and another thing 3 days.

Also consider that not everyone plans to work for their current employer forever. It would be stupid to relocate closer in and then end up changing jobs with a commute the opposite direction or no commute at all.

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This is unsustainable. You cannot have low pay, unimpressive benefits, and crappy working conditions and yet continue to attract a competent workforce. And the Trump administration is not making the kinds of aggressive cuts to government services that they promised, so we will continue to need higher staffing levels to manage the workload.[/quote]

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