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Is This The Future of Work: Everything All The Time?
I’ve been working from home since March. Initially, my employer encouraged me to isolate due to a persistent cough, and soon enough the office itself was closed as the UK followed most of the world in entering lockdown.
My wife is now following suit after her maternity leave ended at the end of April. So now we’re both working from home and parenting a ten-month-old.
There are things I love about working from home. Working hours to suit me — that can change day by day — is great, as is having time for an actual lunch break and, of course, seeing more of my wife and daughter and dodging the nightmare rush hour commute.
But with both of us working, the working day is broken into little pieces. If one of us has a video meeting or an important call, the other will look after our baby.
Depending on who has the more important — or frequent — meetings, you could find your previous eight-hour working day crammed instead into one or two solid hours of work, or a few minutes here and there spread over a much longer time than a standard workday.
I can’t even imagine how single working parents are managing right now.
