Sept. 17, 2021
Brigid Schulte wrote for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) about the possibilities for a post-COVID work environment:
For the low-wage and hourly retail and service workers, redesigning work means ensuring living wages, predictable and sufficient schedules workers have a say in creating, and, for all workers, access to benefits like health care, paid sick days and caregiving leave, affordable child and family care, training and retirement plans that are portable and follow them from job to job.
Reimagining work in all sectors and across the socio-economic spectrum could not only give people more time for their lives and improve the health and quality of life for everyone but also boost gender equity, ensuring that women have more equal opportunity at work and men could—finally—be equal partners at home.