I spend a significant portion of my time on conference calls.
During the summers when the wife and kids are home more often I actually go to my studio on a more regular basis just to get some privacy.
But when you have calls happening in virtually every time zone you will not have much choice but to do them from home.
Generally the protocol is when I have a call coming up I leave my office and announce to the house "Dad is getting on a call in XX minutes and ask for confirmation that they heard me and understand what that means"
That works pretty well until about 30 seconds into the call when my wife will stand 5 feet from my office door and yell to the kids about some random thing that really is not important at the moment causing a conversation to ensue that is just her and the kids yelling back and forth.
Or one of them will wander in while I'm responding to the voices that are coming from my computer and ask "Are you on a call? Cause I need the Amazon login"
I will mime that yes I am on a call and they just stand there staring at me. When I ask "what?" they repeat, "I need XXXXX"
But now that we are all stuck home and they have to also telecommute for work and classes they are all feeling my pain while I just sit here with a **** eating
feeling vindicated.