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How to Hack it
As a Working
Parentor, should your face be bathed in the blue glow of a
phone at 2 AM?
Margaret Heller, Christina Salazar, May Yan //
2.11.2015
Image credit: John Flinchbaugh (CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Traister, Rebecca. “When Will We Stop Punishing Working Women for Having Babies?” Text. The New Republic, February 2,
2015. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120939/maternity-leave-policies-america-hurt-working-moms.
“...an American woman’s earnings decrease by 4
percent for every child that she bears….[A]fter men
have kids, their earnings increase, on average, by 6
percent… [F]athers are more likely to be hired and
to be regarded as more competent employees than
mothers.”
Timing Your Baby
(Extended) Parental Leave
How long of an extended leave are you talking
about?
Canada
Mandated Leave with Benefits (varies by province)
17 weeks (maternity leave)
+ 35 weeks (parental leave)
= 52 weeks
Why think about leave planning?
❏ You are a parent-to-be
❏ You are in management or administration
❏ You are thinking of starting a family one day
❏ You are human and might one day get sick
“DOCUMENT ALL
THE THINGS! You
won’t regret it.” @cattsmall
Create a manual of your job functions
Get important documents out of your own
computer
● Keep the systems simple
● Findable and Usable is important
● Commit to maintaining it
“Stop Emailing Me”
<a href=
”mailto:group.email@mpow?Subject=Not
asking an individual”>I need help!</a>
Hiring Replacement & Cross Train
Creative Division of responsibilities prior to
hiring
● Look internally first - Cross Train
● Overlap as long as possible to train prior to
leave, and to debrief at the end of leave.
● Try to keep your external hires
After you come back from leave
Getting to Leave by 5:30
● Getting Things Done (David Allen, 2001)o Projects => Actions
● Fixed Schedule Productivity (Cal Newport)o Focusing effort => Deep Work
Ruthless Time Management
Easy Project Management
Norton, Quinn. “Against Productivity: This Essay Took Four Years to Write.” Medium, November 7, 2014.
https://medium.com/message/against-productivity-b19f56b67da6.
“This moment’s goal of productivity, with its
all-consuming practice and unattainable
horizon, is perfect for our current corporate
world. Productivity never asks what it builds,
just how much of it can be piled up before we
leave or die.”
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Thanks! Let’s discuss this more!
Margaret Heller
@margaret_heller
Christina Salazar
@InphoManiac
May Yan
@mayyan
Special thanks to Jaclyn Bedoya. Look for our forthcoming article about this topic in Code4Lib Issue 28.
