'I said no' | Boss' response to mum's part-time work request goes VIRAL

Working from home amid the coronavirus crisis has caused a wealth of challenges, particularly for parents who have been forced to juggle home-schooling, childcare and holding down a job.

For many, continuing to work the same patterns as they would pre-pandemic has been a challenge due to additional childcare and home-schooling responsibilities.

To help manage this, one working mum asked her boss to switch to part-time working during the coronavirus crisis. Her boss’ response has since gone viral.

According to the Mirror, Aaron Genest, an Applications Engineer Manager at Siemens Software, explained that an employee recently came to him asking to “move to 80% time”.