Are You a Morning Person or Night Owl? Take Our Sleep Quiz. - The New York Times Opinion | The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week - The New York Times Opinion | The Key to Increasing Fertility: Work From Home - The New York Times By Joanne Lipman Ms. Lipman is the author of “That’s What She Said: What Men and Women Need to Know About Working Together” and other books. Panicked by falling fertility rates — which hit a record low of 1.6 children per woman in 2024 — the administration has floated all kinds of ideas to encourage babymaking, from launching $1,000 “Trump accounts” for newborns to soliciting outside proposals, like “motherhood medals” for moms of at least six. Yet the administration is blind to a proven fix that is right in front of us, one that costs it nothing: hybrid work. Simply put, working from home juices fertility. About 290,000 extra children a year have been born in the United States since the Covid pandemic fueled mor...