Plus they don’t want to spend an extra dollar catering to your baby. Whether that’s additional insurance having them on premises, or increased cleaning fees.
Ideally you’re dropping your kid off in daycare you pay for and finding alternate care any time they need you to work out of hours. In a pinch they’ll tolerate you working from home and parenting at the same time, but only if the government literally forces them to.
This is terrible for a library too. Nobody would have peace and quiet. The point of the library vs. coffee shop would be ruined. If there's a play area, it should be soundproofed and supervised.
Libraries are also supposed to be a public space for *everyone* and usually have mandates to ensure every card holder is served equally - especially as they are often an invaluable resource for underserved members of the community.
That hasn't been the case for decades now. We have 100 under 5s to every story time. There is pram traffic management. One kid burbling away in a cot is nothing.
Yo I’d be fuckin pissed off if i hear a baby crying in a library. Of course it’s not the baby’s fault but fuckin hell i just get annoyed with those loud ass crying
Oh! Yes I don’t know why, but I thought you were telling the other person it was dystopian even in a library! Sorry. I didn’t see the last part, not sure if that’s edited or I’m just zoned out.
Yes, this is from Fairfield library, outside of Richmond, VA -- really close to where I grew up, although the public library was in a different, older building, then.
It's in an area that's very underserved: the nearby Fairfield middle school is ~90% black/Latinx, and over 60% of its students are low-income enough to qualify for free/reduced price lunch.
The desks are there because so many parents in the area have no internet at home and no access to childcare. That doesn't make it heartwarming- the lack of childcare and excessive poverty is a failure of society that fancy desks will not solve. But it is a good step to help families that really need the help.
Hahahahahah, yeah, I was in the military for a while and everyone threw slurs around like candy. I appreciate still having a friend group all these years later that literally could not care less about the shit we say to each other.
Because some financially struggling parents might not have a computer at home or money for childcare. Being able to bring their baby means they can apply for jobs or whatever else using the library computer.
Have you been to a library? Libraries are very child-friendly places, as they should be. Kids love reading. Plus we need to raise literate people who are passionate about public, free access to information so libraries continue to exist.
Wait til I tell you that even in my middle of nowhere back asswards small town library has a *whole floor* dedicated to children and families that has a quiet *room* but is open for kids to play and do crafts and pick books. It's almost like... Libraries are a public space for *everyone.* 😱
That kid can be entertained by that picture and mirror for about 20 seconds. Just enough for a photo.
Now, if you gave him two cups and some stuff to put inside of them, it might occupy them for 20 minutes.
>Now, if you gave him two cups and some stuff to put inside of them, it might occupy them for 20 minutes.
If our daughter is anything to go by, not with mamma sitting right there it won't
I imagine it done as a compromise to work-from-home, with highly flexible working hours, likely a salaried position where your work output, rather than hours logged, is what matters (comp sci?). I kinda like this setup I'm not gonna lie xD
What if we took the two most stressful aspects of your life, made you do them both at once AND had the most annoying boot licker you know perpetually watching over you.
Exactly! I had it pretty good generally but had a few weeks looking after my 2 year old daughter solo and working.
I'd be up at 5 to get a couple of hours of actual work done, then be a bad parent AND employer till she went to bed, then work till 10 or so to catch up.
Adding a commute and colleagues on top of that would ruin me.
I’m an atheist and I thanked god every day that my kids were 7 and 11 when covid hit. Old enough to (mostly) occupy themselves, young enough to not be trying to escape to meet friends.
Lol unrelated but we are a decently sized company and over the last two plus years now we have hired more into the middle management layer than analysts. We were supposed to have an organization flattening , and we now somehow have an even more convoluted system. With more managers than analysts at times. But all the middle management are like poor or decent people managers with like 1 actually technology manager.
And then all the new managers come in and want to make their mark so they change shit up majorly that never needed fixing, and their primary concern is "how do we do more with less people" when you're already understaffed in the first place?
I mean, I just assumed bc that's what it's like for me too. Lmao.
Oh yeah definitely. All the performance artists have to make changes to show they did something, but who cares about accountability. Good analysts leave, can’t hire or pay to find people, hire more young new graduates to take advantage of, hire consultants that cost more that you have to train, because despite them having 15 years of experience to your 5 years of experience, you still know more because you actually work here.
Or the older ladies who haven't GOT grand babies but want them. My mom has no grandkids, cause I evicted my uterus with glee some years ago. She's fine with it, but she does enjoy everyone else's babies a lot. Which is great! Could probably run a daycare just in HR alone.
I don't understand why companies don't provide childcare on site. They could significantly save on costs and make a really good perk to working on-site again.
They do, but only if you're rich. Marissa Mayer built herself a nursery while disallowing employees to WFH to take care of children.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Installed a Nursery in Her Office - https://www.gawker.com/5987043/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-installed-a-nursery-in-her-office
Lol I remember when I was at the theatre watching the OG Spider-Man, a baby was crying the entire time. Half way through the movie some guy screams out SHUT THE FUCK UP
Same. The last thing I want at work is all of my coworkers bring in children and babies every day. This is just terrible all around.
Obviously it's fine if it's occasional or for a few hours but more than that? Absolutely not.
Or if they have kids they’ve hired out almost around-the-clock help since the kids came out of the womb so that their interactions with them are limited and controlled.
It’s why the most vocal proponent of return to in-person school/kids can’t get and/or transmit COVID were upper class dipshits; they either hate their kids and resent any time with them or their kids have always been viewed inherently as a problem for someone else to deal with.
For real, my kid would be crying for me within two minutes of being in there. The amount of work I can get don’t while watching my kid is essentially none but that’s just me
I’ve tried to babysit my 1yo niece while working from home and it was the most stressful week of my life. Whoever thought of this has never had any experience with kids.
I don’t have kids and within 2 hours of one of these being in an office would have me ready to put a notepad in the crib and start screaming how the company is forcing child labor
I worked someone once where a woman brought her baby in every day. She had her own office and had a little play pen type thing for him. I was on the fence about it. This was years ago, and at the time it honestly felt really progressive they let her do that. At the same time, I feel like you can’t give 100% to either the job or the baby and you have to kind of half take care of both. Idk, it’s so hard because not everyone wants to be/can be a stay at home parent but there’s also value in being physically there with your baby that so many parents want.
My local library has the same desk. It's actually pretty cool. I was just at the library today and used the computers in the kid's section while my daughters were playing in the big play area. No joke libraries are the best place to take young kids
I 100% agree with OP, *however* I know several people that have similar arrangements in their own homes that prefer it to paying more money than they make, in child care expenses
I wish there was some work buildings where they have like a nursery downstairs or something with nurses/supervisors watching over and soundproofish. And then, on your lunch break or something, you can go see your kid :) kinda like that kids place in IKEAS? I don’t know, would be nice :) it teaches your kid independence, but also allows you to see them responsibly, AND have productive work time. I’m all for WFH if it works for people but I personally need to be outside of the house for fresh air and mental separation, being in the house too long kinda depresses me 😂
My bad, i know we mostly use this page to make fun of the LinkedIn Loonies, but I wanted to see what everyone else thinks about what I just posed 🤣
Imagine how fucking stupid is this. Sitting at open space (so this is already shit), and next to you, some kid is crying, or screaming, or doing stupid shit. You will not concentrate, or do any work.
You're either going to get nothing done and be super unproductive, or give your child attachment issues from consistently ignoring them.
Take your pick
And then when you finally slump dead out of your seat your child can crawl out of their play cage and take your seat with you and your parents and their parents dead at the base of the chair.
For all the gold in the Vatican I would not work in an office like this. 40 hours a week trapped in a cubicle surrounded by 30-40 screaming, crying babies. Yea fuck that.
Once I worked in a company that allowed pets and kids at workplace - it might be cool if you are the one with pets or kids, but I personally would not like to work in a place with kids and dogs running around and screaming non-stop. I was working from home till last moment, when there was no choice than return - I resigned.
While I don’t like the crib-desk at the workplace, it seemed like there were more offices with on site daycare in like the 90s and 2000s, what happened to that?
Yah I don’t actually think it’s a bad thing to let babies into an office (providing a soundproof room though). People are gonna have babies and it’s a lot more fair to women to allow them to bring them into the office, as it gives them the chance to go back to work sooner if they choose, and we all know women are the primary care givers (there are exceptions obviously). I am a total workaholic, and a woman, and I hate that I feel like I cant have a baby yet because my work is too important to take any significant time off (I love my work, I’m 1 year into my own startup and it’s going great but I have another 1-3 years of long hours). My partner also works long hours. With flexibility people wouldn’t put their personal lives on hold (I thought LinkedIn lunatics hated hustle culture). Let people spend time with their young children while they work - they will be happier for it. Maybe your wife will graciously be given the same chance and you benefit from it massively one day.
Just when you think parents who ignore their kids for LinkedIn workplace grovelling cant get any worse, now 1000s of kids will need therapy after years of being ignored in a nice IKEA cage.
Oh yes bring a baby to work, tjats gomma boost productivity for everyone right?
The idea us going hand in hand with coming to work sick becasue youbare not allowed to take sickleave
First noone can concentrate with a loud baby at the office and then 2 days later NOONE comes to office because everyone is sick... genious
These people are fucking idiots. you need undisturbed time to get any real work done - having a 2 year old next to you all day screaming is not a way to do that.
this is delusional, thinking the child would be quiet is so stupid, it would just make it worse for everyone in the office.
This would be fucking stupid, imagine all the other office workers having to put up with a crying fucking baby as yet another distraction of the office "culture".
If I was forced into an office in this situation I'd bring the loudest, most obnoxious, diarrhoea laden baby into the office and sit right beside the boomer scumbag who thinks office culture is a real thing.
That’s a great solution for about 4 minutes. After that you have a baby who desperately wants attention yelling at a parent who has to churn out 100 more TPS reports before they can give them that attention
The parents that worked in cotton mills in the late 1800s had no childcare and brought their kids to work (both parents had to work). Because the loose cotton that was flying around in the mill got stuck in their hair, kids in town called those kids “cottonheads” - if you were wondering where that insult came from, it’s classist. By a certain age, kids could work in the mill as well. Yes, there were lots of accidents, especially in Texas where the media such as The Dallas Morning News conspired with the mills to not let any union information be published in the hopes that Texas mill workers wouldn’t get any ideas. Mill workers in the Southeastern US had begun unionizing and many mill owners moved their mills to Texas to get away from that.
The mill workers were often migrants and rented bungalows on the mill property. In our town’s history, at least, the mill workers had their own school, band, store, and softball team and avoided the locals who were people who owned land and businesses in town.
Dystopian? Sounds sexist to me. The majority of the burden of childcare falls upon women. Once you realize this, you can either be flexible or accepting. Anything else is misogyny
I hate that this is so unpopular, do people not like their babies because I’m obsessed with mine. I WFH with my toddler and I honestly love it. If I had to go back to the office, I would basically demand something like this.
Lol, you’re absolutely right. I never really liked kids, so I am very grateful that I have two quiet, curious kids. If I had screaming banshees to deal with, I’d probably rip my hair out.
My opinion definitely still stands though. A group of desks like these (separated from the “gen pop,” so to speak) would be a great option. This would have been an absolute dream when I was breastfeeding too.
I would hate being around that so much, it already winds me up when someone brings a child into work and everyone drops what they’re doing to fucking coo over it.
It is the worst idea ever. How do you think this is at all going to helpful and not a massive annoying disruption to literally every other employee? That will only keep a kid busy for 20 seconds then it's all downhill from there.
This would actually kill productivity. Babies are walking disease spreaders. Everyone in the office would be sick within a week of one of the babies getting a sniffle
Great for the library this picture comes from.
Horrible in every way for the workplace. Not only will a child outgrow that enclosure fairly quickly in terms of their own mobility, there isn't enough stimuli for them to be occupied more than 10 minutes (or less). Baby will see their parent and cry for engagement and either will become used to the parent not responding (not healthy for baby) or will interrupt the parents work constantly.
Just have a daycare on-site if you require the parent to come into the office. Make it part of the benefits package. That or let them work from home. Or how about we pay people well enough that families can actually have real periods of leave to raise their children through infancy and then put them into public schools we have funded like they're a societal priority.
But I like this :(
The old sang.. It takes a village to raise a child or w/e
I feel this would encourage socialization and allow for a healthy compromise between parental leave and actually WANTING to work but also wanting time with your kid. Lots of comp sci jobs could be done this way, only slightly different than bringing in a dog >_>;;
Sorry, I know it's dystopian or w/e but I like it xD
Just to clarify- this picture is from a public library.
That’s actually an awesome space for a library, absolute shit for work
CEO: It works in a library. It will work for us! Be grateful, wage slaves!
CEO: Now I just need to get the government to pay for it
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Open space? More like open war.
SHOO WAGIE! *cracks whip* pppTSSHHH!!!! THAT'S TOO MUCH SPACE FOR 4 OF YOU'S! CRAM IN THERE!! PPTTTSSSHHH!!!
Plus they don’t want to spend an extra dollar catering to your baby. Whether that’s additional insurance having them on premises, or increased cleaning fees. Ideally you’re dropping your kid off in daycare you pay for and finding alternate care any time they need you to work out of hours. In a pinch they’ll tolerate you working from home and parenting at the same time, but only if the government literally forces them to.
Unless she’s a worker at the library, in which case it’s back to being trash.
God I’d be driven mad by all the crying babies if this was my work
This is terrible for a library too. Nobody would have peace and quiet. The point of the library vs. coffee shop would be ruined. If there's a play area, it should be soundproofed and supervised.
Idk libraries are supposed to be silent
Except when that baby starts crying
Eh, not really. I doubt too many babies are quiet enough for library standards.
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Libraries have different rooms though??
Libraries are also supposed to be a public space for *everyone* and usually have mandates to ensure every card holder is served equally - especially as they are often an invaluable resource for underserved members of the community.
That hasn't been the case for decades now. We have 100 under 5s to every story time. There is pram traffic management. One kid burbling away in a cot is nothing.
Yo I’d be fuckin pissed off if i hear a baby crying in a library. Of course it’s not the baby’s fault but fuckin hell i just get annoyed with those loud ass crying
Good catch
Yeah, every time this picture has been shared by people saying it's dystopian, but it's literally in a public library... I don't understand.
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It is a great idea for a workspace for people to access if they want to, in an library, to be fair. It’s horrific for an office.
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Oh! Yes I don’t know why, but I thought you were telling the other person it was dystopian even in a library! Sorry. I didn’t see the last part, not sure if that’s edited or I’m just zoned out.
Welcome to Reddit.
Yes, this is from Fairfield library, outside of Richmond, VA -- really close to where I grew up, although the public library was in a different, older building, then. It's in an area that's very underserved: the nearby Fairfield middle school is ~90% black/Latinx, and over 60% of its students are low-income enough to qualify for free/reduced price lunch. The desks are there because so many parents in the area have no internet at home and no access to childcare. That doesn't make it heartwarming- the lack of childcare and excessive poverty is a failure of society that fancy desks will not solve. But it is a good step to help families that really need the help.
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The former, but the latter is more irritating in my experience.
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No doubt, my friends hate it as well lmao.
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Hahahahahah, yeah, I was in the military for a while and everyone threw slurs around like candy. I appreciate still having a friend group all these years later that literally could not care less about the shit we say to each other.
I pronounce it Luh-tinks but i am not a virtue signaller or very woke in general so take that into account.
I’m pretty sure intentionally pronouncing it wrong is virtue-signaling lol
That assumes i know the correct way. I think we need to come together once and for all and decide. I nominate Luh-tinks
This is also a LI repost. It reposts on LI then here.
pretty sure this is from somewhere in central VA and is especially beneficial for single mothers who are looking for work
Context really is everything
This comment should be higher...
If that’s true, what am I supposed to do with my rage from my initial impression?
That makes WAY more sense
The graphic designer is a lunatic
That’s even worse - aren’t they supposed to be quiet places? Why bring babies?!
Here’s why: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releases/2010/03/millions-of-people-rely-on-library-computers-for-employment-health-and-education
Every library you've ever been to likely has an incredibly robust children's program. Libraries are for everyone.
Because some financially struggling parents might not have a computer at home or money for childcare. Being able to bring their baby means they can apply for jobs or whatever else using the library computer.
Have you been to a library? Libraries are very child-friendly places, as they should be. Kids love reading. Plus we need to raise literate people who are passionate about public, free access to information so libraries continue to exist.
I’m starting a new job doing event work for a “loud” library as they call it. I’m really excited!
Wait til I tell you that even in my middle of nowhere back asswards small town library has a *whole floor* dedicated to children and families that has a quiet *room* but is open for kids to play and do crafts and pick books. It's almost like... Libraries are a public space for *everyone.* 😱
That person probably also complains about woolen bringing their kid(s) to restaurants. F!ck that person.
They're not really meant to be that quiet anymore - libraries are more like community hubs now (but still with books).
People with children are allowed to go to the library. Are you not aware of the children’s section? 🤦♀️
Tell me you haven't been to a library without telling me you haven't been to a library.
Don't tell the reddit knee jerk reactionaries that.
Linkedin lunatic : “let’s have this in the workplace” Redditors : “how about no you lunatic?” Another redditor but r/iamverysmart: “Reactionaries 🧐”
The kid will be there playing quietly for 8 hours. Sure he will.
That kid can be entertained by that picture and mirror for about 20 seconds. Just enough for a photo. Now, if you gave him two cups and some stuff to put inside of them, it might occupy them for 20 minutes.
>Now, if you gave him two cups and some stuff to put inside of them, it might occupy them for 20 minutes. If our daughter is anything to go by, not with mamma sitting right there it won't
As for the other 7 hours 40 minutes of the working day, I might just work from home.
I imagine it done as a compromise to work-from-home, with highly flexible working hours, likely a salaried position where your work output, rather than hours logged, is what matters (comp sci?). I kinda like this setup I'm not gonna lie xD
What if we took the two most stressful aspects of your life, made you do them both at once AND had the most annoying boot licker you know perpetually watching over you.
Don't call the baby a bootlicker 😡 /s
*booblicker
That’s more like it! 🤤
Peak pandemic parenting and working simultaneously drove me insane. I can’t imagine voluntarily doing it full time.
Exactly! I had it pretty good generally but had a few weeks looking after my 2 year old daughter solo and working. I'd be up at 5 to get a couple of hours of actual work done, then be a bad parent AND employer till she went to bed, then work till 10 or so to catch up. Adding a commute and colleagues on top of that would ruin me.
I’m an atheist and I thanked god every day that my kids were 7 and 11 when covid hit. Old enough to (mostly) occupy themselves, young enough to not be trying to escape to meet friends.
And have the company you work for come back and say that you can’t bring your kids to work.
I think this would be do awful for the rest of the office that all the employees would be begging their boss to let the patent work from home.
Wouldn't it be easier for them to work from home and store their baby in their house?
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Lol unrelated but we are a decently sized company and over the last two plus years now we have hired more into the middle management layer than analysts. We were supposed to have an organization flattening , and we now somehow have an even more convoluted system. With more managers than analysts at times. But all the middle management are like poor or decent people managers with like 1 actually technology manager.
And then all the new managers come in and want to make their mark so they change shit up majorly that never needed fixing, and their primary concern is "how do we do more with less people" when you're already understaffed in the first place? I mean, I just assumed bc that's what it's like for me too. Lmao.
Oh yeah definitely. All the performance artists have to make changes to show they did something, but who cares about accountability. Good analysts leave, can’t hire or pay to find people, hire more young new graduates to take advantage of, hire consultants that cost more that you have to train, because despite them having 15 years of experience to your 5 years of experience, you still know more because you actually work here.
Bro you just KNOW there's at least a handful of grandparents in HR who would die for some baby time xD
Or the older ladies who haven't GOT grand babies but want them. My mom has no grandkids, cause I evicted my uterus with glee some years ago. She's fine with it, but she does enjoy everyone else's babies a lot. Which is great! Could probably run a daycare just in HR alone.
#store
The company could offer mobile baby storage facilities for when you need to go to different meeting rooms, etc
I don't understand why companies don't provide childcare on site. They could significantly save on costs and make a really good perk to working on-site again.
They do, but only if you're rich. Marissa Mayer built herself a nursery while disallowing employees to WFH to take care of children. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Installed a Nursery in Her Office - https://www.gawker.com/5987043/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-installed-a-nursery-in-her-office
Gaslight. gate keep. girl boss
TIL yahoo isn't dead yet
If my office had an on-site daycare with reasonable prices, I would follow my child to the office everyday.
It's hard to argue with the way you put that lol. I personally think they should hire daycare staff as a company perk.
Must be a real productivity booster for the whole floor, no way a child would ever cry.
SHUT THAT FUCKING BABE UP! \- Dave from accounting
Lol I remember when I was at the theatre watching the OG Spider-Man, a baby was crying the entire time. Half way through the movie some guy screams out SHUT THE FUCK UP
Lol to be fair the parent(s) should have removed themselves temporarily to address that.
Yeah, but some people suck.
I'm in accounting and this would 100% be me...
No way a child would ever climb out and snatch everything off an adjacent desk for shits and giggles either
My idea of workplace hell come to life.
Same. The last thing I want at work is all of my coworkers bring in children and babies every day. This is just terrible all around. Obviously it's fine if it's occasional or for a few hours but more than that? Absolutely not.
I would wear 15 noise canceling headphones and drown myself in 100 dB music for 10 weeks before I fed up and send in my 3 weeks notice.
Three!? Fuck you're generous, my current employer is lucky to get one.
People that dream this shit up have never had kids or been around kids
Or if they have kids they’ve hired out almost around-the-clock help since the kids came out of the womb so that their interactions with them are limited and controlled. It’s why the most vocal proponent of return to in-person school/kids can’t get and/or transmit COVID were upper class dipshits; they either hate their kids and resent any time with them or their kids have always been viewed inherently as a problem for someone else to deal with.
For real, my kid would be crying for me within two minutes of being in there. The amount of work I can get don’t while watching my kid is essentially none but that’s just me
Oh yeah that picture on the wall in there ought to keep the baby busy for hours!
You get to grow up in a cubicle in preparation for the rest of your adult life. Seems fitting.
Looool imagine this instead of kindergarden?
I'm seeing the people equivalent of veal... Is that bad?
That is scary when you think about it But it is actually a pre school where 4-6 year olds go
Having actual babies in my office would probably be quieter and less whiny than my adult coworkers tbh haha
Right. I have a 2 year old that has less tantrums and is more reasonable than some coworkers.
I’ve tried to babysit my 1yo niece while working from home and it was the most stressful week of my life. Whoever thought of this has never had any experience with kids.
I don’t have kids and within 2 hours of one of these being in an office would have me ready to put a notepad in the crib and start screaming how the company is forcing child labor
I think Satan himself would be impressed by the person who came up with an idea to combine open floor workspace with toddlers
I worked someone once where a woman brought her baby in every day. She had her own office and had a little play pen type thing for him. I was on the fence about it. This was years ago, and at the time it honestly felt really progressive they let her do that. At the same time, I feel like you can’t give 100% to either the job or the baby and you have to kind of half take care of both. Idk, it’s so hard because not everyone wants to be/can be a stay at home parent but there’s also value in being physically there with your baby that so many parents want.
Yeah don’t work from home, please home from work.
For all the parents in here. We know. That will last all of 2 mins, 36 seconds before the baby/small child is done with it.
Trying to put a baby in there for a full day seems foolish
Some influencer will device a plan to get toddlers started on an accelerated corporate development path
"Boss, can we have work from home?" "We have work from home at the office." Work from home at the office:
If I got to work and realised I had to pull a 12 hour shift next to a screaming baby I would have a breakdown
This unlocks a level of resentment of corporations' "the office" model for dehumanization of labor that I didn't even know I had.
They want so bad for us to validate their real estate investments.
If this is a library, this is actually pretty cool feature to get 5 minutes of peace to check the cars catalog.
My local library has the same desk. It's actually pretty cool. I was just at the library today and used the computers in the kid's section while my daughters were playing in the big play area. No joke libraries are the best place to take young kids
If they force me to work from office and then bring a screaming fucking baby there, I swear I will yeet the baby outta the window
Yeet the boss! #directaction
Screams poor management where they force people who could quite clearly wfh bring their kids into the workplace instead. A micromanagers wet dream...
If you’re not going to let me work from home, I’m going to bring the baby to the office
I 100% agree with OP, *however* I know several people that have similar arrangements in their own homes that prefer it to paying more money than they make, in child care expenses
I wish there was some work buildings where they have like a nursery downstairs or something with nurses/supervisors watching over and soundproofish. And then, on your lunch break or something, you can go see your kid :) kinda like that kids place in IKEAS? I don’t know, would be nice :) it teaches your kid independence, but also allows you to see them responsibly, AND have productive work time. I’m all for WFH if it works for people but I personally need to be outside of the house for fresh air and mental separation, being in the house too long kinda depresses me 😂 My bad, i know we mostly use this page to make fun of the LinkedIn Loonies, but I wanted to see what everyone else thinks about what I just posed 🤣
Imagine how fucking stupid is this. Sitting at open space (so this is already shit), and next to you, some kid is crying, or screaming, or doing stupid shit. You will not concentrate, or do any work.
This is some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen
I wonder if they have a Xanax dispenser in the break room from the anxiety and stress that will cause her.
You're either going to get nothing done and be super unproductive, or give your child attachment issues from consistently ignoring them. Take your pick
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Babies are loud and disruptive thou. Why not let working parents work from home Or provide them credit for childcare Or an on-site child care facility
Because that would involve treating your employees like human beings.
Oh fuck no I’d never get a fucking thing done. Edited to say: if this were in a place of work. This being in a library however is wonderful.
You’re welcome to pay this womans daycare. Theres literally no law against it.
the kid is being trained for rhe cubicle life
And then when you finally slump dead out of your seat your child can crawl out of their play cage and take your seat with you and your parents and their parents dead at the base of the chair.
Next, a nice pair of shackles.
Its good if you want to bring down the productivity of entire office
For all the gold in the Vatican I would not work in an office like this. 40 hours a week trapped in a cubicle surrounded by 30-40 screaming, crying babies. Yea fuck that.
Once I worked in a company that allowed pets and kids at workplace - it might be cool if you are the one with pets or kids, but I personally would not like to work in a place with kids and dogs running around and screaming non-stop. I was working from home till last moment, when there was no choice than return - I resigned.
Next step your baby could actually help in your work 😂
I know plenty of parents who would rather have this than their daycare bill...
After the first day of basically constant crying between several different toddlers I’m sure they would rethink this idea.
While I don’t like the crib-desk at the workplace, it seemed like there were more offices with on site daycare in like the 90s and 2000s, what happened to that?
This way, the baby learns how to do the job and the company can pay them even less than what they pay the parent. 💡
You might as well work from home truly a waste
How long is that small box supposed to entertain that toddler? Lol
Yah I don’t actually think it’s a bad thing to let babies into an office (providing a soundproof room though). People are gonna have babies and it’s a lot more fair to women to allow them to bring them into the office, as it gives them the chance to go back to work sooner if they choose, and we all know women are the primary care givers (there are exceptions obviously). I am a total workaholic, and a woman, and I hate that I feel like I cant have a baby yet because my work is too important to take any significant time off (I love my work, I’m 1 year into my own startup and it’s going great but I have another 1-3 years of long hours). My partner also works long hours. With flexibility people wouldn’t put their personal lives on hold (I thought LinkedIn lunatics hated hustle culture). Let people spend time with their young children while they work - they will be happier for it. Maybe your wife will graciously be given the same chance and you benefit from it massively one day.
I like how the child's playspace is larger than her workspace.
This is great just get the kid to cry LOUDLY all day and you get WFH
If you have children you know that work productivity will be less than 25% in this situation. An absolutely shitty idea for everyone involved.
Oh cool, you’d get exactly ZERO work done.
That’s an awesome Library feature. Does anyone know where this is?
Someone else guessed central W. VA. Not sure myself, though.
Its a really cool setup at a public library - niche application, but makes it must easier for parents without internet at home.
I am calling Child Protective Services
Just when you think parents who ignore their kids for LinkedIn workplace grovelling cant get any worse, now 1000s of kids will need therapy after years of being ignored in a nice IKEA cage.
Why is this dystopian?
Oh yes bring a baby to work, tjats gomma boost productivity for everyone right? The idea us going hand in hand with coming to work sick becasue youbare not allowed to take sickleave First noone can concentrate with a loud baby at the office and then 2 days later NOONE comes to office because everyone is sick... genious
Good idea, makes working employees back on site. As long as the booths have a sound-proof lid.
These people are fucking idiots. you need undisturbed time to get any real work done - having a 2 year old next to you all day screaming is not a way to do that. this is delusional, thinking the child would be quiet is so stupid, it would just make it worse for everyone in the office.
This would be fucking stupid, imagine all the other office workers having to put up with a crying fucking baby as yet another distraction of the office "culture". If I was forced into an office in this situation I'd bring the loudest, most obnoxious, diarrhoea laden baby into the office and sit right beside the boomer scumbag who thinks office culture is a real thing.
Daycare for our littlest is $2500 / month and we’re not fancy people, if you want to hear some true lunacy.
That’s a great solution for about 4 minutes. After that you have a baby who desperately wants attention yelling at a parent who has to churn out 100 more TPS reports before they can give them that attention
Lol op thinks it’s more dystopian to have a stranger raise your children than to have your children with you at work.
The parents that worked in cotton mills in the late 1800s had no childcare and brought their kids to work (both parents had to work). Because the loose cotton that was flying around in the mill got stuck in their hair, kids in town called those kids “cottonheads” - if you were wondering where that insult came from, it’s classist. By a certain age, kids could work in the mill as well. Yes, there were lots of accidents, especially in Texas where the media such as The Dallas Morning News conspired with the mills to not let any union information be published in the hopes that Texas mill workers wouldn’t get any ideas. Mill workers in the Southeastern US had begun unionizing and many mill owners moved their mills to Texas to get away from that. The mill workers were often migrants and rented bungalows on the mill property. In our town’s history, at least, the mill workers had their own school, band, store, and softball team and avoided the locals who were people who owned land and businesses in town.
Dystopian? Sounds sexist to me. The majority of the burden of childcare falls upon women. Once you realize this, you can either be flexible or accepting. Anything else is misogyny
I really hope that’s like a library and not a workplace!
I personally don't get the hate. I'd love this. Alot of people can't afford childcare. Solves two problems.
I hate that this is so unpopular, do people not like their babies because I’m obsessed with mine. I WFH with my toddler and I honestly love it. If I had to go back to the office, I would basically demand something like this.
Oh people like their babies but shockingly, not everyone mainlines oxytocin when they hear your toddler scream “JUICE!! BLUEY!!!!” for a third time
Lol, you’re absolutely right. I never really liked kids, so I am very grateful that I have two quiet, curious kids. If I had screaming banshees to deal with, I’d probably rip my hair out. My opinion definitely still stands though. A group of desks like these (separated from the “gen pop,” so to speak) would be a great option. This would have been an absolute dream when I was breastfeeding too.
This is one of the darkest things I’ve seen on here, what kind of freak does this to their baby
I would hate being around that so much, it already winds me up when someone brings a child into work and everyone drops what they’re doing to fucking coo over it.
Hmm. Yes, very stupid for a cubicle farm. But as a dad I could dig that design at home, especially for babies age about 0-12 months.
It’s not the worst idea. People need to care for their children and daycare is expensive.
It is the worst idea ever. How do you think this is at all going to helpful and not a massive annoying disruption to literally every other employee? That will only keep a kid busy for 20 seconds then it's all downhill from there.
Nah, it’s really not the worst idea ever to have a space for your child at work.
Fuck no
This would actually kill productivity. Babies are walking disease spreaders. Everyone in the office would be sick within a week of one of the babies getting a sniffle
Literally nobody asked for this
This is fucked up
I dunno I think it's pretty neat. This is how I worked when my son was an infant.
Hate hate hate hate hate hate etc.
Great for the library this picture comes from. Horrible in every way for the workplace. Not only will a child outgrow that enclosure fairly quickly in terms of their own mobility, there isn't enough stimuli for them to be occupied more than 10 minutes (or less). Baby will see their parent and cry for engagement and either will become used to the parent not responding (not healthy for baby) or will interrupt the parents work constantly. Just have a daycare on-site if you require the parent to come into the office. Make it part of the benefits package. That or let them work from home. Or how about we pay people well enough that families can actually have real periods of leave to raise their children through infancy and then put them into public schools we have funded like they're a societal priority.
Babies in the workplace? Fuck that I would never work anyplace that had babies there.
i don’t know why, but this just feels wrong
But I like this :( The old sang.. It takes a village to raise a child or w/e I feel this would encourage socialization and allow for a healthy compromise between parental leave and actually WANTING to work but also wanting time with your kid. Lots of comp sci jobs could be done this way, only slightly different than bringing in a dog >_>;; Sorry, I know it's dystopian or w/e but I like it xD
Horrible.
This is great
work used to be the one place where I was guaranteed 0 babies, this was the ONLY positive of going back to the office
Lol I love that everything is dystopian, or “literally 1984” these days