Working from home with children can quickly get on your nerves.
Find out here how to work effectively when the whole family is at home.
Thanks to the nationwide partial lockdown, many employees are again in the home office *.
If the children are sick or if the school and day care center are closed, it becomes a great challenge for many to reconcile children and work.
A few tips on how you can still get through the working day during the corona pandemic:
1. Take turns with your partner
Your two-year-old whines all the time and doesn't want to leave your lap?
Then often only one thing helps:
work in shifts
!
For example, when mom devotes herself to the children in the morning and takes a lap in the playground, dad can work in peace.
In the afternoon it's the turn of the other.
Of course, this only works if the partner can work from home.
If the employer is flexible, a shift in the evening can also make sense - when the offspring are asleep.
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2. Agree on common rules
In
a press release, HR software provider Personio advises
you to set
clear rules so that
there is no holiday mood in the family in the home office because mom and dad stay at home
: "Get up together at the usual time, do the planned tasks for Throughout the day and only when these are done, the fun can start. ”Make sure you explain to the children
what times you are available as parents
and that they are not allowed to simply drop out of video meetings.
The children should rather write down questions and ask them later.
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3. Create a class schedule for your children
“In order to keep children's everyday lives as normal as possible, structure is important - no matter how old they are.
This not only regulates the everyday life of the kids, but also gives structure to your day, ”advise the Personio experts.
If schoolchildren live in the house, the timetable should
include
homework, breaks, meal times and leisure activities
.
For smaller children there are certainly other "tasks" such as painting or puzzles.
Simply prepare the timetable together the evening before.
(as) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen central editorial network.
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