"Work-from-home parent's challenges"

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'No mute button for a toddler.' How thousands of parents juggle remote work and parenting

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About 1 in 10 adults with kids said their household did not have childcare because options were "closed, unavailable, unaffordable" or unsafe.

Some parents say juggling work and kids have made them master multitaskers.

An estimated 2.3 million American workers work from home on any given day .

Women in the U.S. still trail behind peer countries like Canada and Germany in terms of workforce participation.

Nearly half of remote workers say they'd leave their job if they had to go back to fully in-person work.

Some employers worry that too much flexibility could impact productivity, others believe workers should be able to rearrange their schedule to fit their lifestyle.

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