You’ve tried sharing your Zoom call schedule but you still have the kids wondering where their shoes are, the spouse wondering where the chips are and the dog needing to bark at every leaf blowing in the breeze.
But what can you do when enough is enough and you can’t take the noise and chaos anymore while EVERYONE in the house is working or learning from home during the coronavirus pandemic?
“I have essentially been unable to escape my family for five straight months,” Sommer Cronck told NBC News.
The office may not be an option as many are still closed or only permitting limited staffing.
Other workers may not feel comfortable returning.
Management consulting firm Korn Ferry found in June that half of 1,044 people survey were not ready to go back to an office environment, Travel and Leisure reported.
Hotels however may be the answer to finding peace and quiet and still not going fully back to the workplace.
Workers are now leaving the piles of laundry, the stacks of dishes and are stopping trying to work from home and still multitask the demands of domestic life.
They’re renting hotel spaces to set up shop from.
Hotels are embracing the move.
Hotel Figueroa in Los Angeles started a new program in June called Work Perks to change some of the hotel’s rooms into offices that can be rented for daily use.
The rooms are clean and socially distance, and more importantly, quiet. They also come with high-speed WiFi and unlimited printing, CNN reported.
But the Figueroa isn’t the only one.
There are other hotels across the country that are doing similar initiatives.
The James New York - NoMad calls it the office sanctuary.
Kimpton’s The Sawyer in Sacramento, California calls it WFHotel at the Sawyer.
Raddison Blu Aqua Hotel in Chicago has Blu workspace.
You can be in the room to make it happen at the Hamilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., with its Home-Away-from-Home Office deal. It even comes with a breakfast bag.
More than 25 Hyatt properties, with more promised, are offering its Work from Hyatt package, The Points Guy reported. But the rooms are not limited to U.S. locations as there are also those in Mexico and the Caribbean. Hyatt says the rooms can also be used for remote learning.
But the work from a hotel scenario doesn’t just benefit the worker, it also benefits the hotel.
They are making money when travelers are not hitting the road, but as NBC News reported, the workers don’t place many demands on the hotel staff.
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