Office affairs

[Jojomof8]

OH Is working from home... His boss and other colleagues constantly comment on background noise ( 8:30am call) my child talking, older children putting kettle on etc, so now we tiptoe around! Also when my daughter was ill and had to have a covid test...... she( his manager) spoke about it on the group work chat.... !!! Is it just me or does anyone else feel like working from home is invading ours and our children’s privacy?

I'd say your OH needs to work in a separate room where it doesn't affect the family.

My first thought was affairs in the relationship sense, however reading the op, it is better to have a separate workspace, does your garden allow for eg those work sheds that people have ?

DH works from a room upstairs. We don’t hear him, he doesn’t hear us.

Get him to wear headphones, that should help.

The phrase is Working from Home so normal home noises should be expected and you shouldn't be tiptoeing around!

Rude of his colleagues and boss to comment.

Is there one room he could set up to work in?

His boss and other colleagues constantly comment on background noise

Why isn't he wearing a headset on calls? We all do. I know that not everyone has enough space in their homes to have room for a separate office, so a headset seems the best option.

Is there really nowhere else in your home where he can take calls? Is he working in the kitchen?

Is it just me or does anyone else feel like working from home is invading ours and our children’s privacy?

Of course it isn't, everyone feels like this. It needs some flexibility and his colleagues are being a bit twatty in harping on about it. But if I were him it would drive me mad...

If there's nowhere else in the house for him to set up a desk, can he do the 8.30am call on a mobile phone and vacate the kitchen so you can all have breakfast? Then you all clear out and leave him the kitchen for a few hours.

Headsets work wonders. As do cameras that are switched off.

Your husband is invading yours and your children’s privacy. If he can’t work elsewhere he needs a headset

Headsets, mute buttons and working in a room that others aren't using (even if this is adult bedroom) all help with this.

Yes you could say it does invade your privacy a bit. So best for him to work in another room.
Or he could tell his work he is unable to work from home and they put him in unpaid leave until they open the office. Which would you prefer?!

We both work from home. Me in the bedroom and him in his office. We occasionally meet at the kettle and when dd is home from school the noise levels go up but he doesn't seem to mind

Do these colleagues have children OP? Your DH needs to tell them to grow up and get stuffed!!

@VenusTiger

Do these colleagues have children OP? Your DH needs to tell them to grow up and get stuffed!!

Great idea Or he could try and find a solution to the problem by either finding another room to take and make calls in - the bedroom? Or get a headset and switch the camera off.

TBH working in a kitchen that has a lot of traffic is the worst place to work in.

Rather amusing when the kids tap me when I'm.on phone to patients. Husband is banned from whatever room I'm in on his days off. However if he wants to be downstairs I go upstairs and if he wants go stay in bed I'm at kitchen table. It's the kids that suffer but mine are at school anyways