Caregiving is real work — let’s treat it that way | Sharmi Surianarain | TED Talk

Discover a new way to look at caregiving and parenting, its connection to social wellness, and how to better develop work-life balance for employees with family and caregiving duties with the TED Talk “Caregiving is real work — let’s treat it that way.” Every day, people around the world spend 16 billion hours on unpaid care work. This includes cooking for families, caring for children and older relatives, and other routine household tasks—often in addition to other jobs. If care work is central to human and social well-being, why is it undervalued? In this talk, speaker Sharmi Surianarain shares key ways to acknowledge this labor and build supportive workplaces that put policies with care work top of mind. This is a great video for those in leadership or management roles to watch in order to develop inclusive leadership skills and learn more about improving employee experience within the workplace.