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This law can allow you to work from home while pregnant or postpartum

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09.04.2026

This law can allow you to work from home while pregnant or postpartum

Here are the details your company doesn’t want you to Google.

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BY Kelsey Haywood Lucas and Cassie Shortsleeve

When companies rolled out return-to-office mandates starting in late 2024 and early 2025, labor force participation among mothers of young children fell from roughly 80% in 2023 to 77% by August 2025, reversing years of hard-won gains. Yet if you’re pregnant or postpartum, you have more rights than you may realize, including some that can help you keep your job while growing your family in a way........

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