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Collected Item: “The pandemic gave parents the chance to work from home. Now they don’t want to give it up.”

Give your story a title.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/04/19/work-from-home-parents-remote-flexibility/

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

news article

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

Teleworking has provided advantages to parents - they are able to spend more time with their child during the day, not commuting has given them more time to devote to parenting, and the flexible schedule available in teleworking allows them to work around their children's schedules. Many parents don't want to give up their ability to telework after the pandemic.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

caregiving, childcare, parent, parenting, child, children, teleworking, advantage, remote, flexibility

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/04/19/work-from-home-parents-remote-flexibility/

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Ellen McCarthy

Give this story a date.

2021-04-19
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