Like many Australian women, Brisbane writer Rebecca Sparrow had a hectic start to the year.
When a bout of Dengue Fever felled much of the Sparrow clan in January, the mother-of-three found herself struggling under the weight of a heaving to-do list.
But one-month free access to a personal concierge, gifted to her by a close friend, did help ease some of the pressure.
“‘What is a personal concierge?’, I hear you ask! I had no clue either. So it’s someone to do ALL THE THINGS,” Sparrow wrote in an enthusiastic Facebook post about the service run by said friend Adele Blair.
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Posted by Rebecca Sparrow – Writer on Saturday, 18 March 2017
She described it like having “a virtual personal assistant” to handball annoying life administration to.
“Like what? Like asking them get me quotes to have our front verandah repaired. Asking them to find out if our fridge is still under warranty and if the fridge door can be repaired for free. Researching some info for me regarding high schools. I tried to bamboozle them by seeing if they could find cooking classes for kids over Easter. They did. And Easter present ideas other than chocolate. Sorted.”
In her half of the 2016 annual letter from herself and her husband Bill, Melinda Gates wrote about “the gender gap no one is talking about”, the so-called “time poverty” of women worldwide caused by doing more than double the daily hours of unpaid labour of their male counterparts.