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then there are those of us with kids and so's around. i can barely get a bloody thing done and for one can't wait to go back!

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I can't get any work done with my kid around either. But the difference is not that I'm home instead of at the office. The difference is that she's at home instead of at school.

When kids go back to school some of the work from home conflicts will end, but kids still get home from school early afternoon, and schools typically only open 180 days a year - whereas most officeworking adults have to continue working into the late afternoon, and show up for about 240 days of the year. If you continue working from home after schools reopen, you're still going to have days like these lockdown times...

Well I'm fortunate to have a six-figure income and a job that affords a reasonable amount of flexibility. So throughout the school year I work 9-15:30 and then make up the last hour or two after my kid's bedtime. In the summer she can go to camp for hundreds of dollars per week and I keep a similar schedule.

This summer, we're foregoing camp due to safety concerns.

Not sure why you're being downvoted, being without children (or having a dedicated space outside of the home) is important.

Kids don't understand time or space boundaries very well, and will interrupt your focus, your meetings, your work in general.

I have a colleague with kids and he was the first to volunteer back to the office.. I am without kids and I never want to go back.

This works out decently well, because he's alone: thus, safer than if we all came back.

But the issue is if there was more people in the office, then they would make decisions which the rest of us are not privy to.

I have kids at home 5+8), and have no problem with them trying to come in to the study.

I’ve worked from home their entire lives though.

Same here - I don't have a separate room for work (never needed it) and have 2 pre-school kids at home. Average period without interruption: 10 minutes. I do so little "real" work during the day, that I need 4-5 hours at night to catch up...My wife doesn't work for a longer time now, so there's not a lot of understanding from her side - if I complain, I'm considered a drama queen and I only care about work...If this keeps up, I'll have to rent another small apartment or find another solution.

Isn’t this more of an issue of school being out? Would your kids going back to school solve this issue?

Looks like nobody else wants to admit that.

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