Did you know that this article was written while serving kids breakfast and providing 50 pieces of packing tape and “ask to enter” signage for a blanket fort? Welcome to pandemic working. A new survey by LeanIn.org and SurveyMonkey shows that women are doing gargantuan amounts of home labor during the pandemic—and suffering health consequences.
Yet most employers have not adjusted. Only half of people working from home say that their employers are allowing more flexibility, and less than one in five have had their scope reduced or priorities adjusted. Only two in five have had a manager even check in on their well-being. Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and head of LeanIn.org, calls on employers to help by offering any flexibility and lowered workloads that they can.
Not surprisingly, a quarter of women have experienced severe anxiety, and a quarter say “they have more to do than they can possibly handle.” Because, well, they do. The survey was taken the week of April 13, sampling 3,117 adults.
The kids, by the way, are happily in the fort.
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