How do you juggle WFH with a baby?

Re:How do you juggle WFH with a baby? by hug on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @05:54PM (#42120750)

The point that people are trying to make is that if you are busy taking care of a baby at home you are not working, or at least not working at the same level of capacity or in the same fashion as as you would if you were not looking after a baby... And if you're not working when you're at home, you're not working from home. You're just home. Most countries in the world would call that parental leave.

Is it possible that we can change workplace expectations to remove synchronous communication & work in such a way that these things aren't roadblocks? Probably, and I would argue that we should.

Is that the current way of the world at the vast majority of employers? Not even nearly.

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Re:How do you juggle WFH with a baby? by tptacek on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @05:55PM (#42120761)

I am responding to a comment pointing out the untenability of going to a workplace while also taking care of a kid, which is specifically not what the article is about.

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Re:How do you juggle WFH with a baby? by hug on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @06:27PM (#42121127)

Of course, but the subtext of that comment is that working anywhere while taking care of a baby is untenable, and the fact that you're working from a home office does not change the fundamental calculus of current work expectations.

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Re:How do you juggle WFH with a baby? by remoteworkprep on Sunday November 17, 2024 @06:26PM (#42168279)

Thank you for calling this out. Most of the commenters seem to have never read the article. I intentionally left the type of childcare out of the article as everyone's situation is different. But plenty of people WFH with kids around.

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