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with a few other female friends who were facing the same problem. One told her that after a string of days of continuously not seeing her young daughter, the lack of facetime caught up to her. “At some point, her daughter didn’t recognize her,” Hsii recalls. “[Hearing] that was a turning point for me, where I was like, ‘I don’t want my son to not know who I am.’” Hsii started spending her nights hunting for a new workplace — one not only closer to her home in Playa Vista, but also with a different set of values. “I knew that in my next job I wanted to be in a place where people had other priorities besides their career,” Hsii says. When she started at ICANN last winter, the difference was palpable. “Mostly everybody at ICANN has families,” Hsii says, and they understand when those families come first. When her son was hit with an intense allergic reaction to peanuts during work hours, completely swelling his face, her boss
Linna Hsii, her husband Dennis and their son Cal spend family time in their cozy living room
let her rush out of the office, no questions asked. “As a woman, I often feel so guilty because I’m not being a good mom or I’m not doing my best work,” Hsii says. “That’s what I felt like [at my old job], that I couldn’t give 100% to everything. “But I feel like [being] in Playa Vista
— as cheesy as it may sound — really allows me to have it all. I feel like I can fulfill my role contributing to society being at work at ICANN, but also come home and be a good mom and be a good spouse. I don’t know why, but being here has allowed me to be a better person, in all my various roles,” she says.
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