Bringing Work to Bed: Is Working From Home Damaging Your Relationship?

Do you get mad when your other half brings his work home? If so you might want to calm down, because he could start bringing it to bed next.

According to some new research, 35 per cent of us (and our spouses) work in bed on a regular basis. Amazingly enough, five per cent of the people questioned admitted that the worked in bed for an average of two hours a day.

The results of the research discovered that the trend for pillow careers began in the United States where a survey in New York City found that eight out of ten young professionals regularly work from their bed.

Why have we gone mad for working from our beds? Well apparently we’re all a bunch of work addicts and the vast majority of us spend at least an hour in bed before we go to sleep checking emails and/or finishing work that we failed to get done during the day.

Is working in the bedroom ever an okay thing to do?

However, taking your work into the bedroom could cause problems when it comes to your relationship.

“It encroaches on couple time. You spend less together although you are in the same physical space and it can get in the way of intimacy,” said Paula Hall, a relationship counsellor.

“Couples need to establish where the boundaries for work are going to be before it becomes a problem. And some people need a bit of self-honesty. They should ask themselves whether they are doing this because they prefer it to spending time with their partner,” she added.

Would you ever bring your work into the bedroom? How would you react if your partner started writing reports from the bed?