Back to school, back to the office?

Hello, The schools went back this week, and with them came the annual negotiation that plays out in millions of European households: who does the drop-off, who covers the sick day, and whose work is assumed to bend. Last week in the UK, parents organised a co-ordinated strike over exactly that. The demands were flexible working by default and six weeks of paternity leave at ninety per cent of pay, timed to land as the government's parental leave review concludes. It is campaign pressure...