Years out of work are punished for decades. Created by stepping out: lost wages, lost seniority, lost pension contributions.
This is a need. Something a person cannot ignore. Non-negotiable, usually urgent, and the most reliable foundation for a business. It is felt by the parent, continuously, and rates 4 out of 5 for the pressure it exerts.
It is rooted in Scarce resources and Status.
This friction did not arise on its own. It was created by One parent leaves the workforce — a solution to an earlier problem that produced this one.
The market has answered it in 2 ways: Flexible and part-time professional work and Return-to-work programmes
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The line back to a human being
3 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- FrictionYears out of work are punished for decades
- SolutionOne parent leaves the workforce
- FrictionChildren need hours that careers also need
- Life phaseParenthood
- Rooted inScarce resources
- Rooted inScarce time
- Rooted inStatus
Relieved by
Every one of these is a business, an institution or a habit built on this single pressure.