Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du...
by was_boring on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:29AM
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In my experience the shifts that line up with childcare are given to those with children who express the need.
A job that respects childcare is more likely to retain those employees that need it, and that can be used as leverage.
In a family with 2 working parents, I've always been shocked that "all day" pre-k and schooling means "until 2p". After care is quite expensive and in our experience has a hard stop at 6p.
It's hard enough with office-drone professionals, but when I think back to my service industry days and how those schedules were created - at the whim of a petty manager with no week-to-week consistency and only a couple days notice ont he next week - I just don't understand how those parents get to feel that school is childcare. I means they can only work 8-2, assuming little commute.