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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida State just barred many employees from caring for kids while working remotely. Moms ask:
Jenny Root is used to receiving emails about the coronavirus from Florida State University: They come every few days, updating employees on the latest travel advice and estimates for when campus might reopen.
When the Friday afternoon email arrived, Root, who has a 7-month-old daughter, was pumping. Phone in one hand, she scrolled until an unfamiliar subhead caught her attention: Remote Work Update.
In March 2020, the University communicated a temporary exception to policy which allowed employees to care for children at home while on the Temporary Remote Work agreement, the email read. Effective, August 7, 2020, the University will return to normal policy and will no longer allow employees to care for children while working remotely.
Root, an assistant professor of special education, struggled to parse the bizarre message she was reading. It just didnt make sense, she said: Throughout coronavirus, her boss had been extremely supportive, encouraging Root as she juggled her usual workload with child care for her baby and 4-year-old son, all while applying for tenure. Now the school seemed to be saying that employees couldnt juggle anymore: Do your work, or watch your children. You cannot do both.
https://www.thelily.com/florida-state-just-barred-many-employees-from-caring-for-kids-while-working-remotely-moms-ask-what-am-i-supposed-to-do/
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pnwest
(3,266 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)they can't.
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)at all times, and clocking the time that you are away.
Hekate
(90,674 posts)...or to get a cup of coffee, or stop to pee. The Great God Technology has you on an invisible chain, and it can be yanked.
This observation of mine goes back decades, to when laptop computer manufacturers were running ads showing happy adults taking happy kids fishing or to the beach. Look! You can multitask! Your kid gets precious time with you while at the same time you productively work on your laptop computer. Riiight.
Jobs like my husbands are really rare. He and his team work remotely and are paid for the finished product or ongoing process, and time is pretty fluid. Thank God this arrangement was grandfathered in.
The latest new boss wants to see people right in front of their supervisor, being physically monitored or he did until India (where most of the workers who code now are) slammed everything shut because of COVID 19. Now theyre at home for the duration, but I bet he checks their computer logs to make sure they are giving full value as to time.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)At one point a professor was making a presentation when her daughter came in and said "mommy I need to go potty". Everyone laughed and the moderator, a man by the way, told her to go ahead and help her we would come back to her. A few minutes later she returned and we started again, no issues. What are these assholes thinking?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Faux pas
(14,672 posts)evil is soul deep
hatrack
(59,584 posts)stopdiggin
(11,302 posts)(or several someones?) isn't looking at a very bumpy ride for the next couple weeks.
CYA will be raised to exponential levels, but someone is going to be exposed as the fu**wit that they are. Superiors really don't like it when your name becomes a theme for late night comedy.
Nevilledog
(51,094 posts)exboyfil
(17,862 posts)The kids sneak into your office/room. My kids were 4 and 6 the last time I worked at home (17+ years ago). Occasionally they would appear in spite of my wife watching them.
Seems like my work is worried now and requiring us to sign Flexible Employment paperwork that I think includes a clause about children.
Hekate
(90,674 posts)...is currently on tenure track. After August, she wont be.