How do you both work from home?

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DH has always worked from home 4 days a week, has the large converted attic which large computers and exercise equipment also up there. I'm applying for wfh jobs after working in a school for 15 years. My question is how do you people work from home? Where does the 2nd person literally go? I don't want to end up stuck in the kitchen on a dining chair until the kids come home then having to balance my laptop on my knees for 2 more hours sat on the coach! No room in bedroom at all for a desk or chair and no spare bedroom. Thanks all

Two separate rooms, when dh was hired he had to show he had a dedicated unshared workspace, mine isn’t that strict but I couldn’t work with him listening to zooms etc would throw me off.
prior to us moving house, I used to have a desk in the corner of the bedroom but when we moved we got separate dedicated office rooms

DH and I both work from home. I work in the dining room, which is effectively my office and is just mine. It has a desk, multiple monitors, a PC, office chair. We never used it as a dining room. DH works from a mini office in an alcove in the kitchen - with a dedicated desk, office chair and PC.

We are lucky enough both to have our own offices.

I do however know several colleagues who work in children’s rooms (while the kids are at school) and it seems to work ok.

I also have colleagues who work in kitchens, in the corner of the living room, dinning rooms,in garden rooms/sheds, in the corner of bedrooms, on the landing at the top of the stairs and one in a rather beautifully appointed hall.

The key thing seems to be having a decent chair and a desk space you don’t need to clear away for mealtimes. Most people use noise cancelling headphones so that their conversations are a bit more private.

Husband has one of the upstairs bedrooms as a proper office. I have a desk in the dining room semi retired but do a few hours consultancy a week

All this "you both need dedicated work spaces" - you realise not everyone has huge houses?!

My DH works in our spare room. I return to work from mat leave soon and no idea where I'm going to put a desk. No space downstairs. We don't even have a dining table. Will have to squeeze a desk into our main bedroom, blocking off the wardrobe.

Jealous of everyone else with plenty of space!

Spare room has an office set up in the corner which DH usually works from, our living room is L shaped so we have sectioned off the short bit of the L and have another office set up there that I usually work from when I’m home.
The only time either of us end up at the kitchen table is if we have guests during the week which is only ever a couple of days over xmas.

Dedicated work space doesn’t mean whole rooms each. Just means separate.

I can’t work too close to my DH as he’s too loud and annoying (as am I to him I expect) so we have to be far enough away. Two fold up desk in various rooms. Not ideal but has to be. Both on teams calls a lot and GDPR needs so can’t share.

Garden office.

Does your neighbourhood have a co-work space?

4 bedroom house
DH has the spare room upstairs as an office because he has lots of screens. I just use a laptop so I work from the dining room or even the sofa if I fancy it. Our kitchen has a breakfast bar so we usually eat in there anyway so rarely use the dining room. DD has gone to uni now so wee do have another room I could work in if I wanted to but I like th dining room as its on the front of the house and I can see the park etc across the road etc. Also Ddog likes the company so if we were both upstairs he would be on his own

We share a home office and one of us nips downstairs if we both have calls at the same time or if there’s something confidential

We have a study/spare room. And then a garden office. Insulated and with a good heater and air conditioning unit.
Works well.

We have two offices but I have my screens set up in the living room as I prefer it in there. I have a desk which you can close off so it just looks like a dresser when not in use.

We both have proper desk set ups. My DP had a separate office, he is nearly always on a call and often it has to be confidential so not appropriate for me to share the space. I have my desk in the dining room, which is fine as I work when the kids are at school so I’m not disturbed by them.

We are fortunate to have a large enough house to set this up. Any (decent) workplace asking you to wfh should be checking that you have a suitable work space and that it complies with health and safety rules just as they would in an office.

We each have an office in our house although I have colleagues who have nice garden offices which you could consider if you don’t have the room otherwise?

I have the dining area and DH a cupboard upstairs.

The dining area is off the kitchen. It has a comfy desk chair and I only use a laptop. I dont take calls.

My dh basically has the built in wardrobe is a desk space now.

It means we have a miniscule amount of space for clothes.

We have separate offices. Thankfully my house is big enough, or we might have killed each other by now!

We rearranged and removed furniture in the biggest bedroom so that a small desk can go in there

He works at a desk in one of the kids’ rooms and I work at the dining table or at a standing desk in the dining room.

So he has the box room as an office and we part converted the garage a year ago in to a "snug" and my desk is in there
Before that I had a corner of the kitchen dinner which as ok but not ideal when the kids got back from school. When we converted the garage, it was because we priced up loads of options for more living space(moving garden room, conservatory etc) and it was by far and away the cheapest option..maybe not for now but in the long term... was cheaper than I thought it would be.

He has a garden office as he WFH 5 days, I only WFH 2 days and use the separate dining room mostly (I’m in the office 3 days).
If I was WFH full time we would both have needed dedicated space.

We’re splitting up though and I’m looking at 3 beds for DD and I so I have a spare room/office space but I expect I will also work downstairs quite a bit as I like it.

If I fall in love with a 2 bed though I’ll put in a garden office. We did the last one for under £15k and it’s a good investment.

Garden office building (not fancy, but a well insulated shed) and a partitioned dining room space. Prior to that I had a desk / cupboard that closed up at the end of a day.
Biggest hurdle was a decent mesh WiFi with the shed set up.

We both work from one room which is just big enough for a double bed.

We have a large desk each, printer and a long cabinet.

We use headphones if on a teams meeting or one of us will fo elsewhere if its a long meeting

Edit ment to say you can both from the loft

We needed a 5 bed house for precisely this reason. Three bedrooms two offices

I Did say to dh perhaps we could share an office but this was quickly dismissed. I possibly could manage with a corner in the dining room but I’m very pleased and lucky that I have my own room

We both hybrid work so take it in turns with the home office usually - we also have a small desk set up in our bedroom for occasional both WFH days

Other people we know do a range of things - corner of the living room? Landing? Murphy bed with desk underneath? Kids room is quite common too

Whatever you do, it is really important to have a proper desk and chair as otherwise you will mess up your back

This. Both WFH. Both have a proper office each (sit/stand desk, office chair, printer, shelves).