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Be careful, you might hurt yourself tripping over those assumptions…
Listen, if the kids are older like 6 or more, they are generally more self-sufficient BUT they can’t be left ALONE. So then they would need to find childcare because they’re not HOME to make sure their children don’t hurt themselves or burn the house down. That doesn’t mean “oh they’re stealing time.”
The fact that your “intuitive leap” went to stealing time… woof.
That’s a big leap. The childcare they need could well be the extra they will have to cover because they now have to commute to the office. Im only int he office one day a week but when I am that adds an additional 3 hours of day childcare to the usual day.
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Do you have a policy stating that remote workers must find childcare? If not, how can you prove they were stealing time? Was their productivity on target?Was their any documentation about poor performance? If no, why terminate?
With that being said, if you provided a drop dead date to return to office, them needing to find child care is not your problem. They either return or resign.
Did you consider that bringing up childcare doesn’t necessarily mean they aren’t working while on the clock? It may just reflect the reality of figuring out logistics with a sudden RTO policy
I don’t think you can fire them for that. Just enforce the RTO and your issues should stop.
Have you bothered to look at their work output? You're really thinking of firing women who will struggle with childcare? How do you know they're not working and are instead doing childcare? How do you know they haven't found daycare for their work hours, but having to commute messes that plan up because it changes the start and end times of the daycare?
Focus on actual performance, not what you think they're doing or not doing.