It’s the End of the Work World as We Know It And I feel fine.

Meredith Bodgas

Work is never going to be the same for many of us. Managers can no longer say white-collar parents can’t successfully work from home full time. (We can. It’s just tough with little kids around.) Congress can no longer claim they can’t fund paid parental leave. (They did, with the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, though it didn’t cover all parents.) Employers can no longer ignore moms’ struggles. (Those “struggles” rear their cute, little heads during my Google Meet calls.) With all the uncertainty the pandemic has unleashed, at least we can make a bolstered case for positive, lasting change. And there are already employers improving their benefits for parents’ sake. For instance, the 2020 Working Mother 100 Best Companies upped their game to support their parent employees with increased…

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Working Mother (Digital) - 1 Issue, October/November 2020

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