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This is the second big pillar [1] of the debate about remote work that we need to reckon with. When you have kids, someone usually has to dial back their career
by kaycebasques 3y ago
This is the second big pillar [1] of the debate about remote work that we need to reckon with. When you have kids, someone usually has to dial back their career, and it's often the woman. Remote is a way for these people to have both the career and the child. There are probably other big pillars. We need to find compromises that work for all the pillars.
[1] The first is the idea that remote work is not great for people just starting their career.
- alkibiades 3y agothe way a corporate leader would read that is they wanna use company time to do child rearing tasks they love the office because you can’t do stuff like that there
- kaycebasques 3y agoYes, I can see that. I think the pandemic has changed the equation a bit, though. You've now got a bunch of women in more senior positions because remote work enabled them to keep the job and raise the child. And they have a track record of a couple of years proving that they can still get the job done under this setup. And owing to their more senior nature, these women have more access to the ears of the corporate leaders, or at least people not far removed from the leaders. So now the leaders are possibly much more aware that they might be inviting an exodus of senior workers. Unless all the companies collude to squash remote work and there is nowhere "to exodus" to.