"What if I have no children but I have a grandparent who is ill and requires care" At least where I work you are entitled to the same leave that is being offer

"What if I have no children but I have a grandparent who is ill and requires care" At least where I work you are entitled to the same leave that is being offered to parents to help anyone in your family/household/etc. "Perhaps we should relax the expectations for EVERYONE and not find one circumstance more special than others" Like other parents I made it clear to my boss that if I was required to work from home my productivity would be lower because there is a toddler running around my workspace. It is not that my circumstance is "more special" as much as that I am being required to work from an environment that makes work more difficult. My company operates a large system of offices for the purpose of providing employees with a workspace that improves productivity and I have been forbidden to enter any of those offices for six months. (Just to be clear on what it means for a toddler to play in your workspace, given the opportunity my son will try to "type" on my keyboard and wreak havoc on whatever code I am writing. If I close the door, he will start banging on it and then crying if nobody opens it up. If I step into the kitchen to get some coffee he will chase after me and demand that I read him a book, and if I go back to my workspace he will start crying. My son is starting to figure out doorknobs and it is likely that by the end of this month I will not actually be able to keep him out of my workspace by closing the door.)