Google to keep employees home until summer 2021
Google employee, but opinions are my own.<p>As a parent I&#x27;m grateful for the flexibility to choose where I work until next summer, however it has become very clear to me that a large number of lower-income essential workers who are parents are currently facing a major childcare crisis because they  have to return to work despite schools being closed.<p>This is really revealing underlying disparities in childcare access and the inequities in our education system.  Given the immediacy and severity of this crisis, people in my community are trying to figure out if they can repurpose existing social service foundations, like school PTAs, to raise funds from more well off community members to support others who are in this sort of childcare bind.<p>But it&#x27;s very hard going, not at the least because everyone is in their own personal logistical crisis and it&#x27;s hard to think about others&#x27; childcare needs when you are trying to figure out your own.