Coronavirus: Working from home a new, occasionally frustrating, experience for Hongkongers used to rhythms of office life

One civil servant is learning how to get the job done at the dining room table – when his kids aren’t commandeering the computer. Working remotely, flexible schedules already a reality at growing number of Hong Kong businesses. — SCMP

At nine and seven years of age, Mr Wong’s children can be forgiven for not quite grasping that their civil servant father is actually working on the laptop they see open on the dining room table these days.

The 46-year-old executive, who normally works at Hong Kong government headquarters in Admiralty, has grown used to the occasional distraction of tiny hands since becoming one of 176,000 civil servants asked to work from home amid safety concerns around the Wuhan coronavirus.