Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Employees with Kids and Relationsh...
by rgbrenner on Thursday October 27, 2016 @09:13PM
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Why do companies/society need to accommodate people who have kids?
People are giving you these answers about the importance of children, etc, etc, etc. They're right, but I don't think that's the reason companies accommodate people with children. IMO, it's pretty rare to see policies that are truly based on altruism.. there's usually at least some financial/economic basis for those policies.
This is simple really... if you don't accommodate them (something that costs little), they will go somewhere else that does. So you're left with a smaller pool of employees.
Some of those that you've lost, may be very good, but they will go work somewhere else where they get what they value. So to attract those people, you can try offering more money (likely more than what child-accommodating policies would cost).
Either way, you've reduced the employee pool, and increased wages to compensate. That's not a good situation for any company to be in (unless the cost of such policies costs more... which is unlikely).
Edit: also consider that the older a person is, the more likely they are to have children. So if you didn't accommodate them, your employee pool would be filled with younger, less experienced people (ie: 18-30). That's also generally not a good thing for a company.
People are giving you these answers about the importance of children, etc, etc, etc. They're right, but I don't think that's the reason companies accommodate people with children. IMO, it's pretty rare to see policies that are truly based on altruism.. there's usually at least some financial/economic basis for those policies.
This is simple really... if you don't accommodate them (something that costs little), they will go somewhere else that does. So you're left with a smaller pool of employees.
Some of those that you've lost, may be very good, but they will go work somewhere else where they get what they value. So to attract those people, you can try offering more money (likely more than what child-accommodating policies would cost).
Either way, you've reduced the employee pool, and increased wages to compensate. That's not a good situation for any company to be in (unless the cost of such policies costs more... which is unlikely).
Edit: also consider that the older a person is, the more likely they are to have children. So if you didn't accommodate them, your employee pool would be filled with younger, less experienced people (ie: 18-30). That's also generally not a good thing for a company.