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As an HR leader, Jessica Larsen admits that she didn’t always understand concerns about workplace flexibility she’d hear from her colleagues with kids. The urgency, she says, was lost on her as a childless worker.
“I used to have the mindset of, ‘Working parents can get off early to go pick up their kids? Well, I might want to go to an earlier gym class,’” says Larson, senior HR specialist at workplace solutions company Insperity. “Then I became a parent during COVID.”
Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio
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