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I searched for old threads discussing this and couldn't find any so I apologize if it's been done before.
Would you bring in a baby/infant to your office for an reason other than necessity? By necessity I mean lack of childcare, family emergency ect.
I think the answer would depend on if your work place allow you to bring your baby with you or not. Some company don't allow to have employee bringing their baby or kids with them because it will cause distraction. However, some company might even have daycare center set up for their employee. If you happen to work for an organization that has a day care center and they allow you to bring your baby, then yes. If not, I would not recommend bringing your baby with you to work.
Bringing your baby to your work place cause distraction. This will impact your work performance. Furthermore, you might even get fire for doing something wrong or not doing anything because you have to take care of your baby.
Bottom line, you want to check with your employer first, and you have to ask yourself if it will distract your work.
No, absolutely not. I work from home and it is hard enough with teenagers to understand, my door is closed, I am working. Let alone bringing an infant in and being able to work in a professional manner.
I'm do not have children yet and I can't see wanting to bring in a child to an office. I am perplexed by the amount of people I work with or have worked with that bring young children to the office "for fun." Especially in winter when people are sick. But then again I am not a mother yet and maybe I will see it differently after that, but I don't think so since I consider it a health issue with all the germs flying around an office.
I searched for old threads discussing this and couldn't find any so I apologize if it's been done before.
Would you bring in a baby/infant to your office for an reason other than necessity? By necessity I mean lack of childcare, family emergency ect.
Unless it was a very unusual office or business, I can not image that it would be acceptable to bring a baby/infant to work. Caring for an infant is a full time job by itself, how could an employee possible think that they could do a good job at work and take care of their child at the same time?
Perhaps, if it was a for a very short period, such as Dad drops off baby at 4:15 on his way to work and Mom's work ends at 4:30, and it was OK with the boss. But, an entire day would seem to be inappropriate. And that is not even taking into consideration of the baby catching illnesses from coworkers and customers.
Visits are different; those are for a few minutes.
I'd have a problem if a coworker brought a baby with them to work on a regular work day. My office is already noisy and distracting enough.
And just so you guys know that I'm not singling out babies, I wouldn't want a coworker to bring a dog to work with them either. I know some places let you do that...but I just don't see how it would work. (And I do have a dog.)
I'm do not have children yet and I can't see wanting to bring in a child to an office. I am perplexed by the amount of people I work with or have worked with that bring young children to the office "for fun." Especially in winter when people are sick. But then again I am not a mother yet and maybe I will see it differently after that, but I don't think so since I consider it a health issue with all the germs flying around an office.
I don't get that either. I would be stressed out having my kid in the office, making sure they were behaving, not disturbing anyone, doing my work... and oh yeah! Keeping the kid entertained. Who does that? Really? I haven't ever worked in an environment that people brought kids to work. I have worked in many fields.
I don't get that either. I would be stressed out having my kid in the office, making sure they were behaving, not disturbing anyone, doing my work... and oh yeah! Keeping the kid entertained. Who does that? Really? I haven't ever worked in an environment that people brought kids to work. I have worked in many fields.
My employer (a school district) has an official policy that employees children are never allowed during your usual work day except on specific identified days such as the annual, national "bring your daughter/son to work day" and then they have very clear expectations regarding the age of the child (age 9 to 12) and other responsibilities. This policy goes for everyone from teachers, to night janitors, to cooks, to recess aides, to central office staff.
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