The divide between work time and family time has vanished for both faculty and staff.

We work from home. Our kids learn from home. Work and family activities that could once be separated in time and place have now been integrated.

What every academic parent needs now is flexibility. We need the flexibility to get our work done in the hours when we are not managing our children's education, emotional and physical needs.

What academics -- faculty and staff -- who are parents are not asking for is for less work.

What we want, and what we need, is the ability to do that work whenever we can.