VIVEPORT / KeswickVR / WIRED
I open a blank document and start typing. I can hear my son making loud, experimental new sounds as heâs getting changed on the table next to me. A few metres away, the TV is blaring. A person is making a vapid comment behind someoneâs back on a godawful show called
Marriage at First Sight Australia, and I want to gouge my eardrums out. The only thing missing is a cat stepping on my keyboard.
Living and working in a one-bed flat during a global pandemic is hard enough, but throw a new baby into the mix â my partner is on maternity leave, I change nappies and play with him in-between calls â the WFH utopia has, for me, become a lawless jungle. Like many people, it takes me a while to get into a flow at the best of times. And these are definitely not the best of times.