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What all this paid working from home reveals is that our homes are also sites of unpaid domestic and emotional labour. Those webcam enabled conference calls make some of this visible with untidy rooms & unruly pets & kids 1/
Some of those we care for are invisible in our webcam calls from our homes but present in other ways. We may be distracted by a message on another device; we may struggle to keep our concern for them apparent as we struggle to present our work face 2/
And those webcam work calls also reveal the inequalities of unpaid domestic & emotional labour. From those for whom it is somebody else’s duty as they get on with their important work, who can speak confidently about business as usual & transitioning to the new normal 3/
