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How do you both work from home?

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Helpaladyoutplease · 16/11/2025 19:56

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

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OldieButBaddie · 18/11/2025 10:53

We each have an office. If he has a large office can you not divide it in two? You can buy partitions or just put up a stud wall with a door in it.

I have also seen people create offices under their stairs which look quite good
eg
22 Ideas To Organize A Home Office Under The Stairs - Shelterness

RampantIvy · 18/11/2025 10:57

weisatted · 18/11/2025 07:52

Good for you! You are the only one so far

I have a nice office with everything I need. It also happens to be a spare bedroom that rarely gets used as a bedroom. It has a couple of Ikea chairs in it that make down into beds rather than a bed, so it looks more like an office with chairs than a bedroom with a desk.

Curfew · 18/11/2025 17:10

We both wfh, I work part time so we try to organise it thatI'm in the office when he's home and vice versa. We live in a 3 bedroom flat, and there's no space in our room so we each use a DC's room. Tbh they hate being banished from their rooms for the day but it's the best option. Mostly they're at school and in the holidays we try to organise it so that they can go at least once a week to IL's.

Glittertwins · 18/11/2025 17:33

I have the spare room and he has the desk up in our room. I couldn’t work in the same area as him as he’s permanently on calls and neither of us want to sit with headsets permanently on

MellowPinkDeer · 18/11/2025 17:43

I have an office downstairs in the house and he has an office / bar garden room. ( he works from the city for the most part)

OllysArmyRidesAgain · 18/11/2025 17:45

DH and I have a shared office, it is big enough for 2 proper desk setups and loads of other junk (always have to use a filter for meetings).

I work from home all the time as I don't have an office to go to any more whereas DH has non wfh role and leaves the house most days, so it works for us.

We also have a dining room that is not used daily, and I can quickly pick up my macbook and do a meeting in there. If DH was home more frequently one of us would need to move to the dining room permanently as we would disturb each other too much, especially now after 5 years of working at home alone.

Prior to Covid we never had to think about this and had DH's man cave/place we kept paperwork, I went to the office everyday and whilst I had a work laptop, it was for client meetings not wfh.

NewNamee · 19/11/2025 14:15

We both WFH and only have one dedicated office space.

I like moving around the house to work so will work from the dining room table, kitchen island, sofa, armchair... occasionally from bed if I'm feeling that way inclined! Husband does better with a dedicated space, but if I need a more formal office environment, he's happy for me to turf him out for a bit.

I couldn't share the office with him, tried that and he does my head in!

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