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Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Women, Business, Gender, Progress, Careers, Harvard, Business/management, Equality, Resources, Management, Workplace, Hbr, Human, Business/entrepreneurship, Business/careers, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Coming back to work after parental leave, after having a baby during a pandemic, when you and your colleagues are still working remotely — is complicated. Our colleague describes how she’s approaching remote reentry, and we turn to an expert on all things career and motherhood for guidance on handling childcare, boundaries, and professional relationships during this transition.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.0	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:25.0	I mean at the end of the day like
0:31.0	moms only have so much they can give, you know, like we're giving at work,
0:35.2	we're giving at home, and there's also just added layer of having your babies and not being able to be with your
0:40.0	babies for the first time, you know, this is the first time I'm not with
0:43.8	marked by my side really since he's been born and I know I'm in the same house so
0:48.1	in some ways I'm very lucky for that but this is going to be the first day
0:51.3	where I'm not like the minute he starts
0:52.8	whimpering I can't feed him right away so there's definitely emotions coming
0:57.2	back to work is an emotional time. You add on this extra layer of you you know, COVID and the health risks and all of that that goes with it and the financial stress of it all, it's really a lot. lot. You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.
1:17.8	I'm Emily Kahlfeld.
1:19.3	I'm Amy Gallo.
1:20.7	And I'm Amy Bernstein. Our colleague Erica Trucksler, whose voice you just heard, recently returned to her job as an editor at HBR.
1:30.0	She'd been on maternity leave for the past five months.
1:34.0	Because of the pandemic, Erica had spent her third
1:37.0	trimester working from home.
1:39.0	She remembers it is a chaotic time.
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