work. covid was effectively a grand social experiment where a number of people who participated in the workforce discovered a different way do to live their lives and they are unwilling to let go of the idea that that is how they want to work going forward. and so, by that, i just want to be clear and i am not asking you to take a position on these things but this isn t necessarily childcare access or any of that, right? this is about people wanting flexibility about where they work from and how often they go to a central office, right? we are talking about flexibility, which is something that build back better cannot deal with. um, that is that is a separate company issue. right? yeah, 100%. what we re looking at here is a desire from the working population for either what s called hybrid work or it s partially in the office, but most of the time out of the office. or fully-remote work. and if you look at the pre-covid period, less than 2% of jobs actually offered either hybrid
changer for families and for our economy. as more parents, especially women, can get back to work and work in the workforce. so again, ian, they are talking specifically about things like childcare access, right, paid family leave. um, you are saying obviously it s about something different. so, what can be done? what can be done to address what you are saying the vast majority of people want, which is flexibility? well, i don t want to minimize the impact of childcare on women s participation in the workforce because we definitely saw during covid when schools went virtual that the rate at which women dropped out of the workforce was far greater than the rate at which men dropped out of the workforce. so, know that that probably is going to be a job creator. but it is a small part of what is proving to be a much larger shift in what i am going to call the future of work. which is just simply put, the expectations people have for what they want in work as changed and more important
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