Even as the optimism of a summer filled with friends, camps, and travel prevails, many parents are already looking ahead to the fall with the return to school and the call back to offices. And with this return to the routine comes the anxiety of potential logistical issues that derails the whole week — a sick kid, a school holiday, the nanny having car trouble, or any number of unpredictable events.
Catégorie : Equilibre de vie
How Working Dads Can Keep Pulling Their Weight at Home When WFH Ends
The pandemic shift to remote work led to a profound change for the better in many households: Dads were home. As part of an ongoing longitudinal study on working fathers, researchers heard that these parents wanted to maintain active roles in their children’s lives as offices re-open. This is good news all around. There are benefits to working fathers being more involved at home not just for their children and their female partners (who traditionally bear an outsized burden when it comes to caregiving), but also for the fathers themselves and their organizations. The authors argue that to continue to see these benefits working fathers will need to be proactive in not reverting to pre-pandemic routines and behaviors.