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MS. VARGAS: Hello, everybody. I’m Elizabeth Vargas. I’m a journalist and author, and I’m very excited to be joined today by Sharon Marcil, who is head of BCG’s North America Region, guiding more than 9,000 employees. It is BCG who just played that video we were just watching about the care economy, which is huge.
I know we had a great panel a little bit earlier about taking care of special needs people. This is about the enormous number of people in this country, I’m sure in this room, who find themselves in the position of holding down full‑time jobs, part‑time jobs, maybe no job, and still having to care for people. So, it’s a huge issue.
Today on The Washington Post website, there’s an article talking about that, last month, 100,000 Americans had to call in sick, missed work, because of childcare issues. It’s an all‑time high, higher even than it was during covid and during the…
