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6 strategies to juggle work and young kids at home: it's about flexibility and boundaries

  • Written by Ruchi Sinha, Senior Lecturer, Organisational Behaviour & Management, University of South Australia
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It’s hard enough juggling a job with parenthood when you’ve got young kids. But what do you do when social-distancing policies mean you’ve all been sent home?

This is the reality many families now face. Schools have been shut in Britain, France, Germany, South Korea and all but five US states. In Australia, Victoria...

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