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"my fear is the biggest cost in the long run is all the single young men come in five days a week, and college-educated women with a 6-year-old and an 8-year-old come in two days a week, and six to seven years down the road there’s a huge difference in promotion rates and you have a diversity crisis"

and a followup I saw someone post:

""I like working from home when everybody is working from home"

is not the same thing as

"I like working from home when some people are working from home and some people are grabbing lunch with the boss",

and I think a lot of us are about to figure that out."

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Think a lot about the Friends episode where Rachel starts smoking, to join in on smoke-break chat.

> "my fear is the biggest cost in the long run is all the single young men come in five days a week, and college-educated women with a 6-year-old and an 8-year-old come in two days a week, and six to seven years down the road there’s a huge difference in promotion rates and you have a diversity crisis"

And also divorce crisis in couples where she assumed more equal split of work and things turned out much worst then previously.

"six to seven years" what a joke.

How many people stay on the same team for six to seven years these days to have long term effect on orgs or policy?

Just ask anyone to predict where they will be in six to seven years first or what their predictions were six to seven years back. Most have no clue because this is such a complex ever changing world for a 6 inch chimp brain to fully grok. But lets talk about where the entire chimp troupe will be in six to seven years.

That is quite short sighted view.

First of all the US department of labor says that typical salaried employees stay at a job about five years.

Secondly, even if not: even when changing jobs your prior position will affect the next job. So “falling behind” on the ladder happens across companies as well.

Same team, rarely. Same company, far more often than you'd think, and definitely enough to have an effect on policy.

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