If your partner works from home

[bythelakeside]

What do you do when he works ‘late’?

Please don’t flame me as I know everyone’s setup will be different but mines in a communal area. Still working now. It means getting dinner ready etc is difficult.

Depends what he does
If throughout the day he’s chatting and a relaxed work environment with minimal pressure - then I’d crack on

Otherwise I’d crack on but make a real effort to be as considerate as possible

Children?

Yes one child.

Is that the only place he can work?

Tell them to bugger off to a private area.

I WFH. When I'm home alone I work wherever. When everyone else is home, I take myself away upstairs. We do have an office set up in the box room.

He needs to move his "office" away from communal rooms.

Send them upstairs...

Upstairs

Don’t have upstairs.

Go upstairs. I wfh and like to use the dining table when it’s free but when I’m in the way I’ll go and work from bed (small flat)

To the bedroom then, rather than upstairs

If he's not taking calls then I would just get dinner ready and if he complains tell him to go elsewhere

Send them in a bedroom first.

I WFH full time permanently and I believe it’s a home first and my workplace second. Where we live now I have an office but I didn’t used to and I’ve always cleared out of living areas where people are home.

They need to be working in a space that isn't a communal area. So banish them to the bedroom.

Is it his core working hours or is he working over?
He needs to be considerate to the fact that if is the family home and his needs don’t trump everyone else

Mine is still working now but he often would have been had he been in the office too. I don't really get the difference

Mines upstairs so just do dinner and he eats when he is ready.

Would you walk through his office with a pan and a baby and start making dinner, then?

That’s the difference

We are lucky enough to have a study, so not a problem too much. I would expect him to move if, for example, he was at the kitchen table. He’d have to work from the bedroom.

Sorry OP didn't see he was in a family area. I think 6pm is a reasonable time for you to be able to get on with tea/dinner etc

My DH moves into the bedroom after 6pm to take calls if he's working late. If we're approaching 6pm I just get on with dinner etc if he's still working in the living area, soon reminds him to move.

Thanks @gingercat02 sorry for snapping. Wfh can really feel a bit intrusive sometimes!

Sometimes I take the DC out, most often we just stay upstairs and he stays at his desk downstairs.

Can he not move anywhere at all for the evening? Is he on calls or just working?

If he’s not on calls then he can just carry on working. If he’s on calls then he goes to the bedroom. And blurs his background!