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🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Snapshots of working from home across the world, as the coronavirus outbreak increases in intensity. From Kaitlin Funaro in LA to Katy Watson in Brazil and Kinjal Pandya in New Delhi: how is the global workforce coping with enforced home working? And is working from home even possible when there are bored children running around?
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0:00.0 | Hello, this is Business Daily on the BBC World Service. I'm Sarah Trino and today's edition |
0:08.6 | comes to you from my home. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, many of us are working from home like |
0:15.6 | never before. So today, I'm bringing you snapshots from across the world of homeworking. |
0:22.6 | Both the highs. |
0:24.0 | Who said that working from home has to be identical to the way that we work in the office? |
0:29.2 | Why can't we veg out a little bit more? |
0:31.5 | And the lows. |
0:33.4 | A other bit of bad timing, we actually got a puppy just a couple days before everyone went into quarantine. |
0:41.7 | I don't know what. I was thinking, guys, guys, I can't even hear what I'm doing. Can you please keep it down a little bit? |
0:48.9 | Business Daily from Home, here on the BBC World Service. |
0:57.2 | Now is the time for everyone to stop non-essential contact with others and to stop all unnecessary travel. |
1:08.5 | We need people to start working from home where they possibly can. |
1:15.5 | As for millions of others, my daily commute now consists of walking down the stairs to my kitchen |
1:21.2 | table. It is about 845. I have been listening to the news for about the last hour, which I'm sure, as it does for most people, feels quite overwhelming. |
1:38.5 | I have to say yesterday, I worked for about 12 hours solid with only one break for a quick walk. |
1:45.1 | I found it pretty hard to turn the work off, actually, |
1:48.5 | and that's something that I'm sure a lot of people are finding as well. |
1:52.0 | The kettle is just boiled, so I'm going to re-boil it |
1:55.1 | and get down to it. |
2:12.3 | Music and get down to it. My name is Caitlin Fenero, and I live in Burbank, California. |
2:15.7 | I am a communications and campaign consultant, |
2:18.7 | and I have been working from home with my kids off of school. I think we're on day four now. |
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