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.

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[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

students [who should not be 'at home' all day by definition, although many are]

Hey, it does depend :) I mean, for *some* of my time at university I relied on intellegence rather than diligence more than I should. But even fully committed, we happened to have 1-3 hours of lectures a day, plus a few hours of supervision a week. So however diligent I was on that course, I could be in all day by doing all the reading/revising/question sheets in my room, and asking someone else to take notes in lectures for once.

But then we also lived in student accomodation, where repairmen were organised by the college (I don't miss that!:)) and deliveries could go to the porter's lodge, or at any rate couldn't go to my room :)