Our society is not organized collectively -- so you don't really give a shit about your co-workers kids. This is the origin of all the anxiety. You would not worry about sacrificing your time to help them, if you knew them.
It is a simple fix, if companies were formed more like actual communities. Unfortunately, with specialized labor, this is pretty much impossible.
There is a great book, called, "Capitalism and Schizophrenia", by a french psychoanalyst and philosopher duo, Deleuze and Guetarri. They get into why this organizational structure often lead to a profound disconnect by consolidating aspects of production into silos, as described above.