Companies should step up to help their working parents and here’s how

Working parents have had it a degree higher than the rest of us in terms of the challenges that the pandemic threw at us. In addition to getting confined in the house throughout the lockdown, adjusting to remote work, working parents had to spearhead all aspects of their children’s lives too. With schools and other co-curricular activities that comprise a child’s major part of the day being closed for an indefinite amount of time; these responsibilities naturally fell on the parents.  Such overburdening did not only have a negative impact on their productivity at work, but also led to fatigue, burn-out and a general decline in happiness and the quality of life. The restrictions on movement and travel made it harder to step out for a change of space and clear the head. In many ways, the lockdown practically turned out to be a trap for