Work-work balance

“For a lot of caregivers, telecommuting allows them to manage a workload that is, if anything, way too big. Remote work, then, isn’t just a question of work-life balance; it’s a question of work-work balance. The traditional conception of ‘productivity’ doesn’t account for this.” Amen to this piece from Stephanie Murray, who joins a long line of feminist writers calling out the ways our standard methods for accounting for economic activity ignore the vital work of caregiving. But even setting aside that macro perspective, it’s just good business sense to support your workers in being able to be productive in both work-work and care work. Workers who are well-rested and are able to take care of themselves and their kin are going to do better work, full stop. The best leaders already know this, and they are going to recruit and retain the best workers every time.