Analysis: 'Amazon moms' are every working mom, calling for backup day-care benefits
An Amazon employee gives her dog a biscuit as the pair head into a company building, where dogs are welcome, in Seattle. A group of employees who are mothers are pressuring the company to add backup day-care benefits for children, Bloomberg reports.
“It feels like a tinder box that some event could open up,” said Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute and a senior research adviser to the Society for Human Resource Management.The Families and Work Institute’s 2017 National Survey of Employers, meanwhile, which includes a nationally representative group of employees, found that 5 percent of employers overall — a number that’s actually lower than it was in 2005 — and 9 percent of larger employers offered the benefit.
Meanwhile, she said, women — who are disproportionately providing care — are also speaking more openly about the problem and forcing the issue. An Amazon program manager, Sarah Schnierer, whose LinkedIn bio says she is founder and president of a group by the same name, declined to comment in a LinkedIn message.
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