“What is your child care strategy?” This question has permeated all of my conversations with leaders over the past eight months — as well as my dinner table conversations, Slack channels and text message threads as a parent myself.
In March, our strategy was simply to get our working parents through the school year. Over the summer, we assembled virtual summer camps and helped our employees access other types of virtual child care. As we look ahead to a winter that is expected to see a surge in COVID-19 cases, changes in school protocols and more uncertainty for families, we’re again forced to take a step back and reevaluate what we can do to help the third of our workforce who are working parents.
