While quarantine is gradually taken down to a lower level, it seems that my business has changed a little throughout the last couple of months: a lot of it has been taken online and virtual organising has become more of a thing for me than ever before.

YES: I have done virtual assistance before the lockdown. In truth I have never really advertised it as a standalone thing, but rather as a follow-up at the end of a live session with clients to keep tabs on their progress. These days, however, the virtual side has become as relevant to me as the live assistance in my clients’ homes.

The following content obviously contains generalisations that are solely based on my own impressions while working with clients. Furthermore, most of my clients belong to the older age bracket and have lived in households with traditional male/female task separations.

In any couple, there is usually one partner who keeps the communications with outsiders open, while the other surfs the waves that come their way to some degree. In my experiences with clients, there often is a huge gender difference when it comes to keeping up with social contacts outside the relationship or family, and in heterosexual couples this role most often falls to the woman, rather than the man.