Working at home during school holidays.

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I’m an academic in the Humanities. During the summer I work at home all the time, bar the odd meeting. At the moment I’m working on revisions to a book manuscript. I’m finding it hard going and need to focus. We’re in Scotland so schools have broken up today. DDs are 17 and 14. They are mostly very quiet and don’t need me for anything, but there’s something about knowing other people are in the house that is very distracting. Is it just me being weird/easily distracted? Even just the noise of them moving around takes my attention away.

I could go onto campus and use my office there, but it adds an hour of commuting onto my day. I really resent spending time sat in my car when I don’t need to.

If you’re not working efficiently at home, surely you have to go to an office, or somewhere where you can focus.

I find exactly the same, I work from home at least 2 days a week and am easily distracted by the kids, who are 21 and 18, though they are not noisy and don’t interrupt often. But for some reason I find wfh when I’m home alone or just with DH fine, but I get less done when the DCs are around too. I don’t have a solution, I am simply agreeing!

I'm a teacher and I find the same thing.

Actually I think you have this the wrong way round. You're working from home. I say this to my dh. I'm at home...I'm not in your office.

I'm the same, although I don't do it regularly and have a fairly short commute so its easy to just go to work. I find working in a cafe better than at home. TBH even if there's no one at home I find it much easier to focus in the office.