Businesses in Hawaii impacted by school closures – some pitch in to make things easier for parents

From Honolu Advertiser

Across Hawaii yesterday, business productivity may have dipped a bit as
some working parents stayed home or put in fewer hours on the job
because they had to care for their children on the first day of public
school teacher furloughs.

The
productivity loss, even if stretched over all the state's 17 planned
teacher furlough days through May, probably won't amount to any
discernable drop in the state's gross domestic product, because parents
will mostly be using time off work they otherwise would have taken at
another time.

Still, the relatively short notice of the first
"furlough Friday" challenged numerous companies to maintain services
and production.