Forbes
COVID-19 and school closings have forced working parents to reorder their priorities, BCG’s Grant Freeland writes for Forbes. BCG research has found that up to 15% of working parents are considering leaving their jobs due to the pandemic. Freeland emphasizes that company leaders must help their employees get through difficult times and suggests that they can achieve this by embracing flex-work, providing positive feedback and reinforcement, and considering subsidizing childcare. He says that leaders who do not proactively develop a caregiver strategy will lose not only their hard-won progress on gender diversity, but “may also lose some of [their] most valuable employees and future company leaders.”