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What about paid parental leave, cheap child care and more flexible work schedules? I manage fine to be involved in my kids life even though I'm working from the
by Thlom 4y ago
What about paid parental leave, cheap child care and more flexible work schedules? I manage fine to be involved in my kids life even though I'm working from the office most of the time. Only have 20 min commute though. If I need to follow the kids to the doctor or dentist or meeting with their teacher or whatever during the work day that is no problem (I work from home most of the times when that is needed though). I leave home 7:30 and I'm back home around 16:30, well in time to play with them or follow them to football practice or whatever. It seems to me like many Americans work-life balance is skewed work (combined with long commutes) in such a way that WFH is much more tempting than it is in many other parts of the world.
- nextlevelwizard 4y agoAlways need to remember that most vocal people about WFH are Americans who have hours and hours of commute time with very strict office times and just plain expectation of doing 9 to 10 hours of work per day. Taking remote days was never an issue for me and spending 15 minutes commuting to the office isn't a big deal and around these parts people always looked me funny if I was in the office past 15:00. So the expectations of what "office work" means is wildly different.
- balfirevic 4y ago> Americans who have hours and hours of commute time Europeans, on average, have longer commutes than Americans: https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter8/urban-transport-challenges/average-commuting-time/ https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter8/urban-trans...
- nextlevelwizard 4y agoWhat is your point? That America has more people in mega cities who live close to their work?
- christkv 4y agoNot American :), living in Spain though and until recently we had shit parental leave and flexible work schedules is something very recent.