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[AnnMumsnet]

We have been asked to find Mumsnetters to complete a survey - we are looking for mums (or mums to be) who undertake any kind of paid work at home.

This would include full or part time work at home, being self employed and working from home, running a business from home, working some of your working week at home, being a freelancer etc..

The survey is about your views and experiences of working at home as well as energy use at home.

If this is you, please take a few minutes to complete this survey - everyone who does will be entered into a prize draw where one winner will get a £250 voucher for Capital Bonds - this can be spent at over 160 retailers (including John Lewis, Boots, B&Q, Homebase and many more!).

Here's the survey link

Thanks and good luck
MNHQ

Done.

Done. But I use childcare (downstairs) while I'm working (upstairs). Could anyone work at the same time as looking after a toddler?

Sometimes I have to try a bit.

It goes like this

Don't touch the computer NO DON'T TOUCH THE COMPUTER What WHAT? Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Look it's peppa pig. Over there look it's peppa pig. PEPPA PIG LOOK AT THE TELLY Just for five minutes then I will play lego. Now look at Peppa Pig LOOK AT PEPPA PIG! No, please don't touch the computer DON'T TOUCH ad infinitum

Short answer = no you can't work with a toddler there

Yay BIWI! - Working from home, even as she types

Sardine I pity your blood pressure on those occasions!

I guess the main thing they need to take away from this survey is that working from home is still work, and the same rules apply as if you are working away from the home and whether you are a "mum" or anyone else.

I can't think of any work I could reasonably get done with the kids here. Even the housework (which is work obv although unpaid) is restricted to a few tasks that won't be too tricky to be "helped" with.

Done. Some of the questions didn't really seem to understand the issues though.

Why are you BOLD BIWI?

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What a strange survey! I, like many others here, use paid child care and work from home for my employer. Why the assumption that mothers work from home in order to look after their children at the same time?

Done. Strange not just for childcare assumptions but also fixation in strange things - asking if I leave the tap on while I do things more often than before???

Exactly. You wouldn't expect a childminder to be able to do other paid work at the same time. They'd explode!

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lemniscate I had to laugh at the tap q too. As if I lost the ability to turn off taps during working hours because I set up my own business.

It does assume that there is no childcare involved. Most self employed mums I know have some childcare provision ... We just find that it's not enough and you have to work at night too.

SardineQueen that is spot on. Although my DD turned four recently and for the first time this week I did an hours work whilst she watched a film. there is hope for the future!

At least the survey did not use the term Mumtrepreneur. That makes my skin crawl...

membrillo - I have morphed from being BIWIWhoMustBeObeyed - from my role on the Low Carb Bootcamp threads to BIWItheBold, because I have to shout at my charges quite a lot to vaguely attempt to keep them on the straight and narrow!

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done too.

Gazza, I'm a parish clerk for 3 parishes and I do other virtual PA stuff on a self-employed basis.

I think it depends on the ages of your dc though. If you have pre-schoolers, then obviously you can't really be doing work while they were there (work you needed to concentrate on, anyway), however, if you have older children, then it means it can save on childcare, as they can be of that 'inbetween age' where you feel they are too young to walk home, let themselves in, and be on their own for a couple of hours before you get in, but they don't need you to entertain them as such while they are there after school. My 'being in the house' means ds can't spend 2 hours on the x-box which he would if I weren't there, is a great bonus (not cash measurable, as my 10 yr old being able to be here because I'm in the house, does, as otherwise I'd still be paying out of school care for her).

I too wondered about why working from home would render you unable to turn off taps ??

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Done, and I also object to the assumption that people (women?) work from home to avoid childcare costs and that they look after kids while working. When the kids are at home when I'm working, they are being looked after by their dad. And if we're both working, we use a childminder. And during the day they're at school. Very strange questions!