Working From Home
Managing the Parents on Your Team Requires Flexibility, Support
Experts give advice on how to work with moms and dads in a crisis.
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These are tricky managerial times. “The parents on your team are not ‘telecommuting.’ They are crisis-working,” says Joan Williams, founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. We asked Williams and other experts for advice on how to manage moms and dads in a crisis.
The parents on your team are working from home—when they can. Most are going from job commitments to parenting to housework and can’t buy themselves time (via childcare, house cleaners, etc.). Their working hours are spotty. “Expecting them to home-school and work full time without child care will burn out your workforce,” says Williams.