When a mom professional employed by industrial software company Siemens requested reduced work hours to manage her kids’ online learning during these exceptional times of a global pandemic, her boss’s answer was simple: no. But as it turned out, he had her best interests at heart. Aaron Genest, an applications engineer at Siemens, posted a tweet that went viral when one of his employees approached him asking to reduce her schedule to part-time during COVID. He explained how he didn’t feel right about granting her request. “An employee came to me last week and asked to move to 80% time,” he wrote on Jan. 11. “Her husband, she said, was taking on some extra responsibility and they were having trouble keeping the kids on track during remote learning. “I said no.” He shared that his answer was not for a lack of sympathy, but because her request was based on a logical fallacy. …