Childfree workers told Business Insider they often feel pressured to cover for parents at work.
Benson's not alone in experiencing the tension of splitting work between childfree workers and those with kids.
For childfree workers, it may lead to resentment, or feeling like their time isn't as valuable.
And that might, in turn, lead to childfree workers being asked to take on more.
But the childfree workers, parents, and experts that Business Insider spoke with say that making it a worker-to-worker dispute takes the onus off of companies and policy.
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