We have already many weeks since the quarantine began with a very particular rhythm of life: at home, children without attending school and thousands of families doing telework, trying to juggle between that, housework and the virtual education of their children . It’s not easy at all, especially for those of us who have young children and work from home.
And as an example of this, and with the intention of showing what the reality of many families is like, a mother has shared a video of two hours of teleworking with her children at home, summarized in a 24-second video .
Katie Stevens is a sales specialist living in South Carolina, United States, with her husband Richard and their three children. Like thousands of mothers, she has been sent home to continue her work activities from there and avoid the spread of the coronavirus. Her husband was with her for a few weeks, until he returned to his office job.
Now, she is alone at home with her three children, while she must continue working remotely for her company. To teach others that not everything sounds as easy as it sounds, Katie set up a video camera, with which she captured her first two hours of work at home with her three children .
The result was a sample of several interruptions, children everywhere and many distractions , which, as many of us know, make the work pace slower than we are usually used to, as we can see in the video shared on their Facebook profile :
This is what my first two hours of work looked like today. This is very normal and now that Richard is back on his usual schedule, this will be our new normal until … 🤷🏼♀️
As a mother who has been telecommuting for several years, I know that working from home is doing it surrounded by distractions , since there are always things to do and tasks to finish. If we add to that that we now have our little ones at home, our work activities become more difficult.
Personally, I find that Katie’s video is very attached to the reality of working at home with children (and I only have one daughter, but at the age of five children are still very demanding), and I It is nice that there are examples that show how we parents who telework, particularly so that there is a little more empathy towards those who have young children at home.
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