I put a desk in my bedroom and turned a corner into an office for myself.

My husband has a similar busy schedule with lots of calls throughout the day and I do the bulk of the parenting while teleworking although my job is much slower right now so it's okay. We have a small townhouse that sounds similar and DH has a small desk and chair in the corner of our bedroom. That's where he works all morning until my daughter's (3yo) nap in the afternoon then he comes downstairs and works on the dining table.

Anonymous wrote:This is oP. Starting today, DH works from upstairs, and I & DS4 stays on the first floor. Can someone recommend a link for folding table & chair set ? He is 6 feet. Right now, he is using one chest cabinet in the bedroom to put his laptop & mouse, plus a backless stool to work, not that comfortable. At least it will be better off to get some back support for sitting.

Everyone in the house is not happy with staying at home situation. DS4 wants to go back to daycare, and I would rather commute 1 hour each way to office every day. My coworkers & supervisor text me how good they world from home, and they either have no child or child are in high school/college. We do have another 1 year old girl who has been staying at my parents house right before the stay at home order for 1.5 months already because we cannot manage both the work from home & childcare situation at home. Homeschool & SAHM are not my things. My patents are retired, and they don't mind taking care of our baby. We zoom every night & I pop to see her once in a while.

Wait, what?!? Your baby is staying with your parents full-time and you “pop in” to see her every once in a while?!? The only people I know making extraordinary sacrifices like that right now are healthcare workers who are selflessly trying to reduce the chance of infecting their children. And it’s killing them to be away from their kids. How are you so cavalier about this? And you just don’t like staying at home, so that’s your reason for handing off your kid? I’m a working mom and I’ve had a full-time job since my kids were born so I understand having childcare during the day. But you literally don’t see your child for days at a time? Your whole situation sounds messed up, to be honest.

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Anonymous wrote:This is oP. Starting today, DH works from upstairs, and I & DS4 stays on the first floor. Can someone recommend a link for folding table & chair set ? He is 6 feet. Right now, he is using one chest cabinet in the bedroom to put his laptop & mouse, plus a backless stool to work, not that comfortable. At least it will be better off to get some back support for sitting.

Everyone in the house is not happy with staying at home situation. DS4 wants to go back to daycare, and I would rather commute 1 hour each way to office every day. My coworkers & supervisor text me how good they world from home, and they either have no child or child are in high school/college. We do have another 1 year old girl who has been staying at my parents house right before the stay at home order for 1.5 months already because we cannot manage both the work from home & childcare situation at home. Homeschool & SAHM are not my things. My patents are retired, and they don't mind taking care of our baby. We zoom every night & I pop to see her once in a while.

Let you husband figure out what to order!

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Mine is using a low bookcase and stool. He’s uncomfortable, but there’s privacy. I offered to help rearrange to fit a desk in there but he declined. It’s on him.

We have a townhouse as well. DH sits in the dining room and I’m in the basement. He has a work laptop with a docking station and I use our home computer downstairs. It sucks where he is as he provides general supervision to the kids.

Anonymous wrote:This is oP. Starting today, DH works from upstairs, and I & DS4 stays on the first floor. Can someone recommend a link for folding table & chair set ? He is 6 feet. Right now, he is using one chest cabinet in the bedroom to put his laptop & mouse, plus a backless stool to work, not that comfortable. At least it will be better off to get some back support for sitting.

Everyone in the house is not happy with staying at home situation. DS4 wants to go back to daycare, and I would rather commute 1 hour each way to office every day. My coworkers & supervisor text me how good they world from home, and they either have no child or child are in high school/college. We do have another 1 year old girl who has been staying at my parents house right before the stay at home order for 1.5 months already because we cannot manage both the work from home & childcare situation at home. Homeschool & SAHM are not my things. My patents are retired, and they don't mind taking care of our baby. We zoom every night & I pop to see her once in a while.

Let you husband figure out what to order!

I take all business, including video calls, in my car. I don’t think it is reasonable to expect a small child to be quiet all day long or even most of the day,. I also have a desk in the basement.

This is oP. Starting today, DH works from upstairs, and I & DS4 stays on the first floor. Can someone recommend a link for folding table & chair set ? He is 6 feet. Right now, he is using one chest cabinet in the bedroom to put his laptop & mouse, plus a backless stool to work, not that comfortable. At least it will be better off to get some back support for sitting.

Everyone in the house is not happy with staying at home situation. DS4 wants to go back to daycare, and I would rather commute 1 hour each way to office every day. My coworkers & supervisor text me how good they world from home, and they either have no child or child are in high school/college. We do have another 1 year old girl who has been staying at my parents house right before the stay at home order for 1.5 months already because we cannot manage both the work from home & childcare situation at home. Homeschool & SAHM are not my things. My patents are retired, and they don't mind taking care of our baby. We zoom every night & I pop to see her once in a while.

Our bungalow is mostly open on the first floor, with the whole converted attic as the master bedroom. I usually work in our shared study when I telework, but once everything closed down I moved to the dining room, because DH is on calls most of the day.

But that quickly became unsustainable, too, so I'm now working from a folding table upstairs in the bedroom. Our daughter is older, mostly working and hanging out in her room, but any time someone else took a break for lunch or a little TV, I'd get distracted.

I did arrange early on to go into my office and borrow a monitor to use with my laptop, so that has helped a lot.

Also, I haven't taken advantage of this, but I know my organization was allowing people (with approval) to purchase things they'd need to work from home. So people could get approval to buy a monitor or desk chair for telework, but it would ultimately remain property of the company. Might be worth checking into for some of these PPs, if there are basic office things you need that you might be able to get approval for.

Agree with your DH going to the bedroom for calls. If he needs true quiet he can go sit in the car.

Echoing everyone that dh needs to move to bedroom. I work for a large multinational. It’s common to see execs working from their bedrooms as their usual home offices are commandeered for home school. And get some freaking air pods!