Parents v non-parents at work: COVID has brought tensions to the surface | niltiac
Imagine this: A deadly virus sweeps the world, forcing many countries into lockdown. In the place where you live, schools, childcare centres, universities and some nursing homes close, and most workplaces send their staff to work from home. Your employer responds to the crisis by offering 12 weeks' paid leave not only for parents caring for children but to any employee caring for an elderly or sick relative.
There has been bickering between parents and non-parents over the workload on the internal message boards at Facebook. Ditto at Twitter, where all employees have unlimited leave – because parents have been using more of it this year. Salesforce, which has offered six weeks' family care leave specifically to parents with children, also has childless employees arcing up.article on social media was passionate.
But the question of whether non-parents should be expected to do extra work is different to whether they are right to be mad if they're doing the same work they always did, while parents are given special allowances during the pandemic. Actively complaining because you think working parents are being given too many privileges to deal with a tough situation is misconstruing what's really going on.
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