Work-life Balance

In March of 2020 as the pandemic was beginning its widespread shutdown of non-essential workplaces, economists at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business decided to conduct a remote work study. Newly homebound themselves, professors Jonathan Dingel and Brent …

Early in the pandemic, many cheekily predicted that people quarantining with their romantic partners would lead to a spike in births in late 2020 and early 2021. But in a classic case of “Netflix and chill” being replaced by “Netflix …

In the early months of 2020, coronavirus was just beginning to dominate our collective thoughts and conversations. Amid that chaos and uncertainty, an interesting stat was all but lost in the noise: as of January 2020, women in the U.S. …

Though many businesses have reopened, many of the country’s office workers are still performing their jobs remotely. For many, the novelty of donning sweatpants and slippers all day every day has long since worn off and the fatigue that comes …

During the ever-expanding economic and social turmoil of the COVID-19 outbreak, those of us with the ability to work from home know how incredibly lucky we are. But for working parents, there are many days where that luck can feel …

With large numbers of new COVID-19 cases being reported every day, more companies than ever are doing their part to encourage social distancing by asking employees to work from home (WFH). Everyone from Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google, Oracle, Twitter, and …

Whether you’re a first time parent, or adding another bench player to your family soccer team, navigating the return to work after the birth of a child can be tricky. Questions like “Does my employer offer leave?” “Will it be …

Life can be a crazy journey of twists and turns, some of which we control and others we don’t. Whether you have small children, are helping to care for an aging parent, or you’re going back to school, certain circumstances …

If you and your partner both have careers, it can be difficult at times to make the right decisions that keep both your ships afloat. Throw children into the mix, and a few waves can quickly become rough waters that …

Families with two parents working outside the home are common today. In fact, among married-couple families with children, 61.9 percent have both parents employed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. My household is one of them. With both my spouse …