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Guest Column: Businesses should take extra steps to support working caregivers


Times Guest Columnist
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we work, interact with family and friends, and care for others. As business owners continue to make adjustments, it is important that they take steps to make sure that working caregivers have the support they need.
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The number of working caregivers in the U.S. is growing. AARP’s 2020 report on caregiving found that more than one in five Americans, 21.3 percent or 53 million, are caregivers, up from an estimated 43.5 million caregivers in 2015. 
I joined the ranks of America’s caregivers in 2013 when my first child was born prematurely, and then the stakes became higher in 2015.  I was 15 years into a successful career in management consulting in Seattle with a toddler and husband when my father-in-law was diagnosed with advanced bile duct cancer. He was a wonderful man who paid it forward in his community in so many ways, going back to school in his 50s to get his degre ....

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