{"id":3705,"date":"2022-02-02T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T07:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2022-02-02T14:31:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:31:18","slug":"work-from-home-do-you-need-a-nanny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/work-from-home-do-you-need-a-nanny\/","title":{"rendered":"Work from home &#8211; do you need a nanny?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The distractions come thick and fast when you&#8217;re working from home &#8211; daytime TV, housework,\u00a0knocks at the door, and cold callers on the phone all do their best to break your concentration.<\/p>\n<p>And then the cat\u00a0seems to need feeding every five minutes &#8211; while there&#8217;s no doubting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/working-home-alone-office-pet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">having a pet around the place can help alleviate the loneliness that can come with working from home<\/a>, they&#8217;re not always great for productivity, but they&#8217;re nothing compared to having a baby around the house while you&#8217;re trying to work &#8211; so, if you&#8217;re a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/work-from-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">work from home<\/a> parent, is it time you considered taking on a nanny?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bDuLeXx2Gv0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>Hiring a nanny or an au pair might seem like an unnecessary expense, but if having children around the house means you&#8217;re struggling to juggle work from home life and work life, then your productivity can suffer. If this happens, it can have serious knock-on effects for your job and career prospects, so the option of having someone take care of the kids, even temporarily shouldn&#8217;t be dismissed straight away.<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s the difference between an au pair and a nanny?<\/h2>\n<p>Although both do similar jobs, there are very distinct differences between au pairs and nannies. These differences can have an impact on tax and employment rights.<\/p>\n<h3>Au pair<\/h3>\n<p>An au pair usually lives with the family they&#8217;re working for and aren&#8217;t usually classed as employees. This means they&#8217;re are not entitled to the National Minimum Wage or paid holidays. Instead, they will usually have a room in the family home, eat meals with the family and receives monthly pocket money instead of a salary.<\/p>\n<p>You can hire an au pair if they are from the UK or Ireland or from an EU country and have settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme, or are eligible to apply under the EU Settlement Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>You can also hire an au pair if they have a Youth Mobility Scheme visa.<\/p>\n<p>If none of above applies, you need to check the au pair\u2019s visa conditions for their right to work before hiring them.<\/p>\n<p>Also bear in mind different countries have an upper age limit for au pairs and they&#8217;re usually hired as part of a cultural exchange program between countries.<\/p>\n<h3>Nanny<\/h3>\n<p>A nanny is a standard employee and is paid a salary. There&#8217;s no age barrier and no cultural exchange aspect, as with an au pair.<\/p>\n<h2>How much does it cost to hire a nanny or au pair?<\/h2>\n<p>As an au pair is treated as a member of the family they live with and get \u2018pocket money\u2019 instead of a salary, you should expect to pay them at least \u00a390 a week.<\/p>\n<p>As a nanny is a tax paying employee, you can expect to pay a part-time nanny around \u00a313.35 per hour if you are based in London and your nanny is live-out. If your nanny is live-in and based around London, this drops to about \u00a39.28 per hour if you are based in London and your nanny is live-in. This generally works out at between \u00a3250 and \u00a3400 per week for 25 hours childcare (inclusive of tax and NI contributions).<\/p>\n<h2>How having a nanny could help you work from home<\/h2>\n<p>There are a number of ways having a nanny can help when working from home, including:<\/p>\n<h3>Cut\u00a0down distractions<\/h3>\n<p>Being able to spend more time with baby is one of the biggest perks a work-from-home parent can possibly have, but it also means no end of interruptions to your working day &#8211; and that can be really bad news for productivity.<\/p>\n<p>Employing a nanny to take on even just a few hours during the day means you can devote an interruption-free block of time to the day job, so you can write those reports and take those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/conference-call\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conference calls<\/a> without having to worry about feeding time or nappy changes.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Cut out the commute<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Working from home doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean you&#8217;ll have your kids in the house with you all day, but putting them in nursery could mean adding an unnecessary commute onto your day &#8211; and cutting out the daily \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/?s=commute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">commute<\/a> is one of <em>the<\/em> best work from home perks.<\/p>\n<p>Having an in-house nanny means you won&#8217;t have to leave the house and compete for parking spaces at the nursery with all the those parents who aren&#8217;t lucky enough to work from home.<\/p>\n<h3>Create work\/home boundaries<\/h3>\n<p>Blurring the lines between your work life and home life is one of the biggest potential drains on both parenting and productivity &#8211; if you don&#8217;t give both your full attention, you&#8217;re selling yourself, your employer, and your child short.<\/p>\n<p>Having a nanny in for a few hours a day means you can create those boundaries and work when you have to, and be a parent when you don&#8217;t, and vice versa.<\/p>\n<h2>Do you need a nanny?<\/h2>\n<p>Obviously, it all comes down to personal and financial circumstances, but being a parent and having a career are two full time undertakings, so it could definitely be worth considering, if only so you can give both your full attention.<\/p>\n<p>And regardless of whether or not you employ a nanny, remember that a reliable conference call provider can also make working from home a lot easier. Find out more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/conference-call\">ConferenceCall.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/conference-call\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1777 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/conference-call-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The distractions come thick and fast when you&#8217;re working from home &#8211; daytime TV, housework,\u00a0knocks at the door, and cold callers on the phone all do their best to break<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/work-from-home-do-you-need-a-nanny\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Work from home &#8211; do you need a nanny?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,28,27],"tags":[29,15,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6577,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions\/6577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.nl\/blog-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}