@jilleduffy by “they” you must mean greedy old white men because any woman in business could have told you this with absolute certainty three decades ago.
I am beyond sick of pretending their problem isn’t greed and lack of empathy.
I ran my own professional services business for 20 years. I ran it like a woman and this schedule, among other things, was easy to accommodate…..if you care at all about the people who do the work.