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Comparing office work with a WFH situation when kids are at home is unfair - apples to oranges. If you were in the office, where would your kids be? Who would t
by pkolaczk 5y ago
Comparing office work with a WFH situation when kids are at home is unfair - apples to oranges. If you were in the office, where would your kids be? Who would take care of them?
If you want a fair comparison, compare to a situation when you bring your kids to the office.
But no one is doing that, right?
WFH works fine if your kids are where they are supposed to be normally: school, daycare, kindergarten, with nanny or with your spouse.
If they can't be taken care of for some reason (e.g. they are ill), you'd be forced to take a leave if you didn't have WFH possibility. So your productivity would be exactly 0. Now with WFH and kids at home maybe you'd not manage to get top productivity, but it would be still greater than 0. So overall it is a net win, even when taking kids into account.