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Zrinka Frankovitch
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08/18/20 at 11:14PM UTC
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Diversity & Inclusion

Bring Kids to Work (every day)

In the past months many of us have transitioned our work to our homes. You may say, we brought the work home. And as we learn how to balance the delicate boundaries between work assignments and deadlines, personal well-being and care for our loved ones, parents are finding themselves surrounded with their children while attending conference calls. From the "Bring Your Kids to Work" day, today we got to keep our kids at work every day. In that complex tango between us and our kids we are being observed steadily throughout our work days and weeks. Among many funny, difficult and disrupted work moments that I have experienced at home office, one left a particularly strong impression on me. I was attending one of the dozen of conference calls that packed my Tuesday calendar, when my youngest child entered my office and sat under the table, peacefully coloring. I did not notice this quiet intrusion and continued with the call. After a long hour, I finished the Zoom call and started to prepare for the next one when I got startled by a quiet but confident voice of a 7-year old: "You have very nice friends, mama." As surprised I was by this comment, I was also relieved that my son had approved of the interaction between my colleagues in that call. Yes, I am proud of a wonderful, diverse and inclusive workplace that I am so privileged to work in, but this event made me wonder how would our children rate our workplace experiences and if they would not rate them very high, what does that tell us?

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Paulla Fetzek
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08/26/20 at 12:52PM UTC
I'm not a parent, but I am a teacher. Children can have astute observation. What children often lack (and this comes with years of experience) is understand the subtle nuances in things. If a child could see me at work [my full time job, sadly I don't teach full time], I'm 99% certain he/she would find what I do extremely boring. I couldn't argue with the him/her. The child would likely question then why I stay. This is where nuance kicks in. ;) Back to the observant part. I teach part time. I was talking with one of my students (this was maybe 3? 4? years ago and she was 12 at the time) about my full time job. After listening to me she said, "You sound grateful - but not happy." That's where astute observation kicked in.
Anya Lambin
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08/19/20 at 2:24AM UTC
Very interesting,I wonder what it tells us. I think it would speak to the culture of the company.
Zrinka Frankovitch
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08/19/20 at 3:21PM UTC
Anya, I believe it does speak to the company culture. And the alignment of company values to our own.

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