More family time: the city is actively promoting itself as a destination for starting a family while maintaining a high-level career. Photograph: brittak/Getty Images/iStockphoto
It is 3.30pm, and the first workers begin to trickle out of the curved glass headquarters of the Stockholm IT giant Ericsson.
John Langared, a 30-year-old programmer, is hurrying to pick up his daughter from school. He has her at home every other week, so tends to alternate short hours one week with long hours the next.
Sai Kumar, originally from India, is leaving to pick up his daughter because his wife has a Swedish class. Ylva (who doesn’t want to give her surname) is “off to the gym to stay sane”, as is Sumeia Assenai, 30, who came in at 7am, so is allowed to leave early under her company’s “flex bank” system.
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Hazel’s comment:
All very well for people with project-type work but what about shop workers, street sweepers and those that we rely on to "do" for us?
Nurses can’t simply up and leave work when the work is done – it never is anyway.
Yes, for those who can then it is good and I certainly enjoyed having a reasonable amount of flexibility in working hours when the children were young.
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