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Comment by taneq | Hacker News Reader

No sane person actually works from home with their young kids present, at least not in any real job. Until schools have their remote classes sorted out with actual teachers giving actual attention to students over video, nobody's going to be getting any quality work done.

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It is not possible to give "actual attention to students over video".

There really is no such thing. Remote teaching does not, can not, and should not work for young kids. It's not a university.

(source: life)

It will work fine for all the INTPs and similar personality types. The rest is screwed.

My preschooler is probably something like INTP. Teleconference learning is not working great for her so far.

It's easy enough to test whether someone is an INTP with an online personality test. Basically INTPs will look like autists. They don't talk unless asked and dislike the company of other people.

I don't know whose young kids you're testing on (and they're all different so you're right for some of them!) but all the ones I've met are glued to a screen at every opportunity. They love video calls and talking on the phone and interacting with people via screen.

I would assume running a team of 12 people being the first time in there whole careers working from that is planning global production for a multi billion dollar business is a real job. As trying to get a bootstrapped startup of the ground.

The first case is my wife, the second one me. We have two kids. For obvious reasons I had my office at home anyway. For two weeks bow it is WFH for both of us. Plus the kids at home. Tell you what, it works. Stress, sure. But it works.

Just a couple days ago, I spoke with a patient rep for a medical practice in metro NYC. She was obviously working from home, with a young child yelling, and pressing buttons on the phone. And obviously tense. So I just said that I understood that she was working from home, and that everything was OK. And then everything was OK, and her child quieted down.

Yep, I've been finding it comforting to talk about it (even briefly) to clear up some of the pressure. I think it's nice that you've done that and I appreciated it when someone brought it up similarly with me while on a call. It allowed me to relax a bit and refocus as opposed to just trying to ignore the interruptions and being anxious about it

That's key, I think. Way before Corona, I worked for a tram at Amazon that ended up to have three parents of small children on it me included. Q4 calls were fun, there were times were the children started to talk yo each other. Our manager was ok with it. Performance was good, things got done and remote work went perfectly well. A different manager could have easily had the opposite effect so.

Well done, sir/ma'am. A little bit of understanding goes a long way.

Every last parent on my team of 100 has at least one child under five, so not even then.

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