Posted on 09/05/2020 12:07:57 PM PDT by Theoria
Pandemic policies at tech companies have created a rift between parents offered more benefits and resentful workers who don’t have children.
When the coronavirus closed schools and child care centers and turned American parenthood into a multitasking nightmare, many tech companies rushed to help their employees. They used their comfortable profit margins to extend workers new benefits, including extra time off for parents to help them care for their children.
It wasn’t long before employees without children started to ask: What about us?
At a recent companywide meeting, Facebook employees repeatedly argued that work policies created in response to Covid-19 “have primarily benefited parents.” At Twitter, a fight erupted on an internal message board after a worker who didn’t have children at home accused another employee, who was taking a leave to care for a child, of not pulling his weight.
When Salesforce announced that it was offering parents six weeks of paid time off, most employees applauded. But one Salesforce manager, who is not permitted to talk publicly about internal matters and therefore asked not to be identified, said two childless employees, reflecting a sentiment voiced at several companies, complained that the policy seemed to put parents’ needs ahead of theirs.
As companies wrestle with how best to support staff during the pandemic, some employees without children say that they feel underappreciated, and that they are being asked to shoulder a heavier workload.
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I can assure everyone that the amoral degenerates here in silicon valley only think of themselves.
No surprise...
The single employees can start producing children, if they feel the policies are unfair.
I was talking to a purchasing agent for a customer last week. She was saying the resentments brewing in their company, is between stay at home employees and those who have to be on site.
Its college education vs non college education.
“children become adults.”
Yeah. That’s smart posting. Deep thinking going on.
Children are not adults and not productive. Productivity builds the future not potential productivity.
Dunning–Kruger effect much? Chime into the void.
As someone who has seen the inside of the corporate world from entry level to executive management, I can sympathize with these childless employees.
I never understood why companies began adopting this silly, paternalistic attitude where they treat their employees like children. If you're getting paid to work, then go to work. Giving out "paid time off" to a select group of employees is a recipe for disaster.
The Slimes again....creating trouble again....as usual.
“The single employees can start producing children, if they feel the policies are unfair.”
Childish remark. The company can stop their behaviors instead.
“Children are not adults and not productive. Productivity builds the future”
In the future, today’s children will be productive adults while today’s adults will be unproductive corpses.
Lol, not surprised you’d whine about it. Here’s the thing about not working for the government: you don’t like the policies, go work somewhere else. Only babies think everything they don’t like “needs a law.”
Lol, you too.
Ridiculous. THe rules in our society for better or worse are equal pay for equal work.
As they should be.
HOw many of the parents would take that?
Parents do work with children: theirs.
Ridiculous indeed. As an employer, I shouldn’t be allowed to have policies that reward BEHAVIOR I find beneficial?
You sound like Hillary. Ya wanna pay parents to take care of their own kids now?
“Ya wanna pay parents to take care of their own kids now?”
If Facebook or Salesforce want to, it’s their money and their business.
Lol. If I am an employer, I’ll pay my employees for whatever I want. Funny how you conflate the free market with government coercion.
That's exactly the point of the article. In the long run they may be doing great damage to employee morale.
Amen. Of course the socialists here don’t get it.
“As an employer, I shouldn’t be allowed to have policies that reward BEHAVIOR I find beneficial?”
Too many FReepers say: Americans must be free - but only to use that freedom in ways of which I approve.
“In the long run they may be doing great damage to employee morale.”
Or maybe losing whiny snowflakes is addition by subtraction.
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