DESERET NEWS: The case for child care at work
Patrick T. Brown, Deseret News, January 16, 2023
The post-Covid landscape for work and office life is still unsettled. In major metropolitan areas like San Francisco and Washington, D.C., it seems like a major shift has happened in favor of permanently higher rates of working from home. In other metro areas, life has largely returned to normal. All the while, firms are still heavily competing for workers, if not quite so frantically as last year.
For many working parents, child care needs have complicated a return to work. The number of parents who say they are not working due to child care problems is higher than it was pre-pandemic, though not the tsunami some media reports have suggested.
