Building Workplaces for Caregivers: Supporting Parents in Tech
summary
Evidence that workplace change actually happens: a GitHub ERG pushes policy and the company adopts 20 weeks paid leave plus family-forming benefits, bereavement, travel support and breast-milk shipping. Surveyed parents report loneliness and guilt; concrete remedies tested include Maven telehealth and sleep coaching (same-day pediatric Zooms, an $800 sleep coach) and team practices—blocking calendar time for breastfeeding and sleep training, raising issues in retros and swapping pager duty—which reduce guilt and raise psychological-safety scores.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:27Parenting research
- 3:31Overcoming loneliness
- 7:43Parent support groups
- 8:26Guilt and boundaries
- 11:35Time off for sick kids
- 13:24Sharing struggles at work
- 17:16Supporting non-parents
- 19:42Caregiver awareness
- 22:10Call to action
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