Free childcare, flexible schedules, and months of paid leave: How Silicon Valley is switching up lavish in-office perks to benefit parents working from home
: Cut working parents some slack. Glasson wrote that when she took emergency leave this past spring when her children's daycare was shut down, it wasn't some sort of vacation or mental break, and that offering these types of benefits is a way "of keeping parents employed and children cared for."
Working long hours at home with many distractions is a great way to make costly mistakes, new research from Stanford University shows.The childcare issue has become particularly important as school starts up again. Tim Allen, CEO of caregiver marketplace Care.
Pemberton, the Workhuman HR officer, said tech companies looking to add these types of perks should be striving for what he calls "work-life harmony": changes that better allow employees, and especially parents, to more easily juggle their jobs and their personal lives. "I think you have to define what it means, not just say that you're flexible," Pemberton said. "Then you have to create a culture where there is no loss of value or perceived contribution because you're listening to the call a little bit later, as an example. Those are things that might seem small, but they're actually pretty big to working parents."
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