Parents who work from home can consider themselves quite lucky. In today’s age of technology, it’s becoming more common to have the option to work remotely from the quiet of your home or a nearby Internet Cafe. However, how your nanny really feels about the fact that she has to work with you being there may absolutely surprise you.
You may have discussed this when you were in the process of interviewing prospective nannies and you may have hired a nanny who said that she was fine with a parent working from home while she manages your children but this may not always be the case at all.
We at IIAAB had a chance to speak with several nannies to get some insight and feedback into this issue and it turns out that 99% of nannies would prefer to not have a parent work from home. We have been told that children “act” differently in the presence of their parents and tend to be more whiny and irritable, hoping to get some attention from their parents. They don’t listen to the nanny and pose a situation where the nanny has no control over the children, making it a very stressful work environment for the nanny.
In fact, this is an issue that is taken into careful consideration when a nanny is job hunting. If the parents work station is out of sight or in a different area in the apartment then it makes coexisting a lot easier. In other instances, when a parent is working from home where there’s limited space and insists that the nanny take the children outside so that there’s peace and quiet, this becomes a major issue and particularly difficult in adverse weather conditions when the children would have been safer and more comfortable indoors. So parents, this is definitely something to take into consideration when hiring a nanny.