This sort of experience was common among the parents we studied in our research across professionals at three different organizations: a pharmaceutical company, a professional services organization, and a university. We interviewed and observed 72 of these workers, who were almost all extremely devoted to excellence in their work. We found that a subset — specifically, the workers with young children who were the primary caregiving parent or shared this role with their spouse — felt short on time. This, of course, is no surprise to parents of kids or anyone else who has extensive caregiving responsibilities such as eldercare. What we also found, however, was that in addition to the sorts of “typical” management of time one might expect to find (e.g., scheduling), these workers tried to manage interactions .