'I don't know if I can do this': Parents brace for school year juggling jobs, remote learning amid COVID-19 pandemic

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Without support, some overwhelmed parents, particularly mothers, who typically take on more of the caregiving burden, say they will likely drop out of the workforce — and many already have.

Traci Wells was at a school board meeting when she found out the springtime balancing act between her job and helping her children with online schooling would stretch into the fall.

Now, employers and employees are grappling with how to adapt to a new reality that may require them to extend short-term fixes and create more long-term solutions, whether that's staggering schedules, splitting jobs between two workers or offering leaves of absence. And morale may plummet as employees without children feel pushed to pick up the slack for their colleagues who are parents.

"They can use a couple hours at a time,'' Daly said. The company will also start offering an emergency backup care benefit in early September, enabling employees to use a center or to get in-home assistance when normal child or elder care arrangements fall through. The company is also taking into account how some workers are juggling jobs with family responsibilities when evaluating their performance.

"As much as employers really want to be helpful and recognize the issue parents are having," Pryor said, "there is also the economic reality that they can’t afford to pay people who aren’t actually being productive and pulling their weight.

“I didn’t realize how bad it was until I took the break,'' Wells said of the pressure she'd felt juggling work with her added responsibilities at home. Remembering those struggles as she looks toward the fall is making her"anxious that it's going to get to that again.''

 

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