2 Things to Help You & Your Partner Work From Home

When my employer moved to a virtual office to maintain social distancing, I thought I had it made. For some time, I’d been working remote on Fridays. I spent those days focused on desk projects and work-related reading. I tried not to schedule meetings on Fridays. I worked in my pajamas. I was alone in the apartment while my wife was at work.

Now I could have days like that all the time!

How wrong I was.

After just one full week of working from home, I am exhausted! I sat through more meetings (16!) than I usually have to attend when I’m in the office. I dealt with scores of emails, likely from all the other people who are working from home in front of their computers all day. Very little of the writing and reading I usually tackle working from home got done.

All that, while I worried about the members of my work team, my wife — who had to go into her job for three days to be trained in remote learning — and my friends and family.

On Thursday, after the fourth meeting of the day, I hit an emotional wall. It would have been the perfect time to take myself out to dinner at the Italian place…