Cindy Lee recalls as a working mother with school-age children in the 1990s, having to juggle work demands and parenting responsibilities when inclement weather forced schools to close.
As the founder and owner of Lync Logistics in Chattanooga, Lee said she has worked to avoid such challenges by giving workers more flexibility in where and how they work so that events like this week’s winter storm and school closings don’t hurt business operations or employee families.
“For us, this was no big deal this week,” Lee said in a telephone interview. “We try to be very flexible with our employees. If your kids are out of school, you can bring them to work or work from home.”
Lync Logistics gave all of its employees laptop computers and extra computer monitors for home use before the pandemic.
“Our workers just set up shop at home, and we continued normal operations,” Lee said.