Work from home

Most companies will not allow you do do that. It will be stipulated in a contact.

No I don't think that's allowed in the UK

I did (until I gave birth last month) for over 2 years. UK civil service, most of us are parents who have flexi hours, wfh and good contracts. It’s allowed, even my directors (2 mums) have kids at home and job share.

For me, it’s a no. Looking after a one year old is a full-time job and is unpredictable so I definitely couldn’t do a days work from home while looking after her

le leche league company have flexibility in bf /working from home. If you can find a job from there (I haven’t really checked) but they have a book on it. Only you can answer if you can manage working and looking after your child at the same time. For example, in the book they allowed the parent to bring their child to work and bf on demand for 2 full days. Later on with the persons second pregnancy she worked from home.

hi Sarah, please could you give me some more info about this☺️

I try to do one day a week working from home without childcare and it’s super hard - I end up working g through the evening. 5 days would be impossible based on my limited experience

@incog sure! You can look for roles in the civil service on the civil service jobs website. It’s huge, over 500k people in the uk from everything from health and defence to education, transport, foreign aid, pensions. Every department has roles from admin jobs to directors so it’s super varied. I joined at 21 and I’ve been there 14 years now. Great hours, good pension, good pay and a very stable job. People stay in the CS for decades even 40/50 years. Happy to be messaged xx

Also look at your local authority, the council is the civil service too xx

Absolutely not. Maybe would be possible with a young baby or one or two days maximum per week of they are that bit older and moving around and in at things. I don’t think it would be fair to your child. Most jobs will have deadlines and targets to achieve, private meetings and phone calls etc. I don’t see how anyone could achieve what is required in the hours set out unless you were exceeding your contracted hours.

I have had to work at home a couple of times with my child when he has caught a bug from nursery. My managers are supportive and tell me not to worry but the guilt I felt at having to sit him in front of the tv so I could type a report or make a phone call was bad and I can’t imagine doing that full time. Also, someone in another department was WFH regularly with her child and I found it extremely annoying when we had meetings as it was a lot of interruptions from her child which was impacting on my time so I had to raise it. X

But like others have said, someone jobs it is doable and allowed but I think they are few and far between. I think the funded hours for working parents is expanding again in England later this year so you might be better holding off and trying to get your child into nursery then X