With children unable to attend in-person school, working parents have been charged this past year with overseeing their children's education through a constantly changing patchwork of in-person, virtual and asynchronous days, while also working 9 to 5. Meanwhile, parents with daycare-aged children have been faced with an altogether different struggle, juggling work time with childcare.
However, work still had to be done, deals had to be closed and deadlines had to be met. For many parents, the pressure has been too much. As work, family and more converged into the confines of a Zoom call, many caregivers have turned to their employers for support, providing a reminder that when there is no childcare infrastructure, employers and managers wind up being indirectly responsible for helping to support their coworkers' ability to work.
Source: IIABA