Home on the rage

[j4]

Does anybody know whether a majority of households in the UK include one adult who stays at home during some/all of the working day?

I'm just wondering how to account for the fact that commercial companies always seem to be extremely surprised when I tell them that I can't actually stay in all day, every day, on the offchance that they might turn up, as I have a full-time job.

Comments

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Without wishing to disagree with your overall point, you don't have to be economically inactive to be at home - quite a few people do have work-at-home arrangements, or actually carry out their business from home.

I strongly suspect though that such companies reckon that if they're gracious enough to come to you, then you should be grateful enough to wait on their possible arrival.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I think ONS take the view that people who work from home (one way or another) don't count. The whole thing's a lot of intersecting grey areas anyway - I'm both disabled and stay-at-home-mum but I also work from home, oh noes, how will they ever categorise me? ;-) And yeah, I'm still not in my house 9-5 Mon-Fri, so fie! and A Pox On You! Obnoxious Delivery/Utility Repair Person.