Was the lady living with the baby’s dad and if so was he able to work from home too?
That could be a good compromise. The parents take turns looking after the baby and working.
If a persons shift is 9- 5, what if it was changed to 7- 7 but the extra 4 hours is free time to be used flexibly as needed throughout the day, clock in and clock out. They would still be paid for 8 hours and not given additional duties.
I had a boss who really wanted to be a grandma and I took my youngest child to work with me for the first nine months or so. I only worked 20 hours a week, and things happened to be really slow at work. The kid spent a lot of time in a sling while I was organizing the office. I wasn’t doing much drafting at the time. But aside from the fact that he was the child who never took naps, once he was mobile off to the babysitter he went!
DH’s boss (a VP) is an anti-vaxxer, so wont be attending any work events or meetings. WTH is wrong with some people?
It was just a news clip about the unemployment rates (which have fallen to 4.7%) but how there are still people who ‘are applying for 300 jobs’ but still can’t find a job. Well I could apply for 300 jobs I’m not qualified for or won’t relocate or won’t wear the uniform required or not be willing to go into the office and I still wouldn’t have a job.
Many employers are being flexible now, but not many are willing to take a chance on an employee who isn’t available to come into the office when needed or who hasn’t proven to be able to do the work remotely. Employers get to set the terms and working conditions.
At the beginning of the pandemic, a lot of employers put log in features onto the employees home computers and when the employees didn’t log on or didn’t respond to emails immediately, they were warned and then fired. Some claimed their kids needed them, they needed to tend to school work or take care of pets or other ‘home’ things. All true, but the employer is paying them to work, not to be the home teacher or take care of a baby or walk the dog.
News from Amazon:
We are back 3 days a week starting November 1. They just announced that there were a few requests for vaccine exemption. But all were denied. We have 100 percent vaccine rate now.
My son says he doesn’t even bother to read the updates about when they might be going back to the office since they keep pushing it back.
Our S has been going into work for a while now even though it is not required. He started off going in 2 to 3 times a week, and now goes in on most days unless he has other appointments or deliveries to accept. All meals are provided and he sits outside with coworkers for lunch.
My company just asked everyone if they wanted to come back to our local office. Like 12 people said yes, out of a few hundred. They wound up giving up the office space, downsizing and renting a smaller unit for like 15 employees. They let everyone else stay home.
My job is 100% WFH, even before Covid. I work with people across the globe, so there’s not really any sense to being in an office (I’m in PA, my analyst is in FL, my boss is in CA, her boss is in MN, and I’m working on projects with people in various states here plus in the Phillipines, India, UK, Ireland, and Puerto Rico).
However, I am working on an internal project for my department with my PM who lives about an hour away. We are collaborating with coworker who lives in TX. We decided last week that we wanted to get together on Friday in person when our TX coworker was off. It was amazing. We got a conference room. Wore our masks. Hooked up my laptop to a 40 inch screen. I don’t know that we were any more productive than the meetings we’ve been having remotely, but it was just so nice to change up some scenery and chat in person for a change. We’re making plans to do it again in about 2 weeks or so. I might work out some sort of schedule with her where I come in once every other week or so for us to work on things together, if we have days where our schedules align.
I had an all day meeting in a hotel conference room today-something that I did all the time precovid. This is the first time back for me. 14 people were spread out in a much larger room than we would have normally needed. It felt surprisingly normal. Proof of vaccination was required for attendance. The biggest surprise for me is that not one person wore a mask or seemed to have any concerns about covid. Attendees were primarily lawyers and engineers with an average age of about 50. There was another meeting in the room next to ours and no one at that meeting was masked either as far as I could tell. Except for the oversized room, you would never know that covid existed.
One day after Microsoft announced it will reopen their offices, my company sent an email saying it will reopen on a hybrid schedule. They have been trying to reopen since last June but kept delaying it due to Delta and Omicron variants. We will see if it actually happens this time.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft-to-reopen-washington-offices-this-month/