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Re:Google to keep employees home until summer 2021 by sologoub on Monday July 27, 2020 @11:54AM (#23966297)
Turns out the age old adaptations of having proximity to relatives really do matter. US is doubly vulnerable here - people move around a lot and the infra for childcare is simply not there.

This is being discussed from the well-off perspective of remote-capable jobs. The real pain is being felt by medical and other front-line workers. Gov. really need to look for options to support those in critical in-person jobs, starting with medical/fire/etc and then opening up to all essential jobs categories.

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Re:Google to keep employees home until summer 2021 by closeparen on Monday July 27, 2020 @12:19PM (#23966529)
A lot of us were born in places that are no longer economically relevant. The retired are less geographically restrained - I wonder why they don’t more often follow their adult children. For example some of my Chinese coworkers don’t need to go back to China for childcare; their parents and in-laws rotate shifts here.

Also keep in mind, if both generations have kids at 30 (or even younger in a more traditional setting), grandparents are also still working age when the child is born.

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Re:Google to keep employees home until summer 2021 by throwaway0a5e on Monday July 27, 2020 @02:46PM (#23968093)
>I wonder why they don’t more often follow their adult children

Because the cost of living where their adult children are reflects the incomes of their adult children.

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Re:Google to keep employees home until summer 2021 by closeparen on Monday July 27, 2020 @03:53PM (#23968740)
That's fair, but the way I've seen this done is with a 2-bedroom apartment. A young family will need that eventually anyway. The second bedroom can be the caregiver's until it becomes the child's.
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