{"id":208,"date":"2020-11-19T18:31:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T18:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2020-11-19T18:31:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T18:31:01","slug":"is-there-a-silver-lining-in-the-pandemic-cloud-for-womens-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/19\/is-there-a-silver-lining-in-the-pandemic-cloud-for-womens-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There a Silver Lining in the Pandemic Cloud for Women\u2019s Careers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been widely reported that the pandemic has negatively impacted women\u2019s careers disproportionally, largely due to the closing of schools and the resulting childcare challenges.\u00a0 For example, in McKinsey\u2019s annual\u00a0<em>Women in the Workplace<\/em>\u00a0report, more than one in four women are contemplating downshifting their careers or leaving the workforce completely. (1)<\/p>\n<p>So where is the silver lining?\u00a0 It comes from the adjustments that many businesses have made to accommodate their workforces including (2):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allowing flexibility in scheduling remote work around childcare needs<\/li>\n<li>Remote work in itself, which provides flexibility on work location<\/li>\n<li>Employers becoming more aware of the needs of parents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remote work is proving to be as productive (and in some studies more productive (3)) as in-office work.\u00a0 It allows employees to focus on deep work without being distracted by co-workers, eliminates the time and burden of commuting to\/from work, and can reduce employers\u2019 office space needs.<\/p>\n<p>The benefits of remote work and the increased employer sensitivity to the needs of parents will likely continue after the pandemic, which will benefit working parents and disproportionally working women.<\/p>\n<p>(1) <a href=\"https:\/\/hrexecutive.com\/heres-how-employers-can-avoid-losing-talented-women-during-the-pandemic\/\">https:\/\/hrexecutive.com\/heres-how-employers-can-avoid-losing-talented-women-during-the-pandemic\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(2) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2020\/10\/29\/a-break-in-the-pandemic-clouds-shows-benefits-for-women\/\">https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2020\/10\/29\/a-break-in-the-pandemic-clouds-shows-benefits-for-women\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(3) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/scott-mautz\/a-2-year-stanford-study-shows-astonishing-productivity-boost-of-working-from-home.html\">https:\/\/www.inc.com\/scott-mautz\/a-2-year-stanford-study-shows-astonishing-productivity-boost-of-working-from-home.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been widely reported that the pandemic has negatively impacted women\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,47,36],"tags":[48,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}