Some couples are experiencing shocking revelations from working from home, together.
Once Googled, the truth was significantly duller: a bake-off is just financial speak for investment banks competing to attract a client's business. But looking back, hearing my husband say the word ad nauseam—that I knew about the impending bake-off's existence at all—marked the crossing of an invisible line between us: My husband was no longer just my husband, but my coworker, too. Our workspace is incredibly exclusive and we have two very green, unproductive interns .
Haneem Isabirye, a civil engineer in Johannesburg, South Africa, was taken aback to learn her husband, also a civil engineer in frequent Skype meetings, "is king of 'these unprecedented times,'" she told, "and, oh my God, 'we need to take an agile approach.'" One long-married former colleague flinched when his wife, a business analyst, casually used the term "cloud-based capital management.
"My husband finds time to fix himself a hearty lunch, ride the Peloton and take a 45-minute shower break during the day but is on the phone through dinner/bath time 98-percent of the time," one working mother who requested anonymity told me. The content of his calls, she's noticed, "appears to be 30-percent chit-chat about why working from home during COVID is so hard."
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