LuckyNumber7
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That's great and all. Let me explain that to my boss
This plan doesn't extend parents work hours. It bases it around a typical 9 to 5 work day (8 am for drop off, 6 pm pick up for the kids - which is exactly what my 5 y/o's $1,700 a month preschool is now).
It’s not a matter of explaining it to your boss. It’s a matter of leadership promoting it with facts and research, similar to how Jeb tried to promote a six day work week (@40 hours). What I’m talking about is a 32 hour work week.
So instead of pumping money into a brand new system, why don’t we reinvent what society calls a work week? No new money spent, happier workers, more productive workers, more energized workers.
https://www.inc.com/tom-popomaronis...major-breakthrough-in-employee-happiness.html
In a perfect world? Sure - job's should be more flexible with hours and allow parents to come later and leave earlier to get their kids.
That's not reality.
My bosses are actually very reasonable and understanding - and between my salary and my wife's (mostly my wife's) the issue of leaving our kids at preschool until 6 or with the nanny until 6 is doable. Expensive as all fuck, but we're in a place where we can afford it with minimal impact on our day to day. We couldn't afford it in NY anymore - which is why we moved. Alas..
This plan is a common sense approach that will give parents in middle and low income situations a little peace of mind. I see no fault in it whatsoever.
It’s not a common sense approach. It’s a needless system that further cements “grueling pace” to american working society, which favors brawn to brain.
It’s silly that you’re shrugging off a culture change as totally far fetched, and meanwhile promoting a system that would (1) make republicans heads explode and (2) put more new money (if any at all) into our public education system, as opposed to closing the tremendous gaps in it that already exist.