Desde que hago teletrabajo, organizo un pequeño despacho en casa con horario flexible.

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Breakdown of Desde que hago teletrabajo, organizo un pequeño despacho en casa con horario flexible.

• un: a
• pequeño: small
• en: at

Questions & Answers about Desde que hago teletrabajo, organizo un pequeño despacho en casa con horario flexible.

Why does the sentence use hago teletrabajo? Can teletrabajo be a verb like “I telework”?

In this sentence teletrabajo is a noun, not a verb. Literally, hago teletrabajo is “I do telework / I do remote work.”

In standard Spanish (especially in Spain):

• teletrabajo = noun (“remote work”, “telework”)
• The usual verb is teletrabajar (“to work remotely”)

So you could also say:

• Desde que teletrabajo, organizo un pequeño despacho…

That is perfectly correct and very common. Using hacer + noun of activity is also very normal in Spanish, e.g.:

• Hago deporte = I do sports / I exercise
• Hago yoga = I do yoga

So hago teletrabajo fits that pattern: I do (remote) work. Both hago teletrabajo and teletrabajo (as a verb) are acceptable, with the verb sounding a bit more direct and modern.

In English I’d say “Since I started working from home…”. Why does Spanish use the present hago after desde que instead of a past tense?