The COVID-19 pandemic made working from home more popular which has allowed more new mothers to rejoin the workforce. 

What You Need To Know

  • Work from home became popular during and after the pandemic

  • It has allowed many new mothers to be in the workplace because of its flexibility

  • If more and more people stopped working from home it could cause new mothers to have to leave the workforce

“The pandemic and the emergence and really rapid acceleration of work from home I think has had a big benefit to working moms,” said Michael Goldberg, a professor at Case Western Reserve University.

Ashley Schreiber is one of those working moms and she said it has allowed to her to be a career woman and a mother.

“I enjoy working, I want to work and I like that work from home life has allowed me to kind of feel like both,” she said.

Data from the American Community Survey showed that 66.6% of women nationally that gave birth in the last 12 months were in the workforce, which is the highest percentage in a decade. Schreiber explained it would be hard on her family if she was in the office five days a week.

“Financially it would be a huge burden on my family to have to be in full time,” she said.

Schreiber explained that working from home also allows her to be there for her kids when they need her. Goldberg expressed his hope for employers to continue to allow mothers to work from home when possible.

“Employers that want to retain their best talent, in my view need to make sure that they build in flexibility for those workers like a working mom,” he said.