Working from home...

Denverdave

Denverdave

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In view of the steps many organizations are taking, how many of you have the ability to do your job from home? I already work from home one to two days a week. But we are discussing how we can do this at work probably 75% of the people here can do their job from home.

They also announced that many of the major colleges in the state are going to online classes only. Lectures done via teleconference.
 
One of our executive managers has his whole team working from home today in a mock quarantine test to flush out any issues. Our IT dep't has been tasked to examine the load on our VPN if everyone had to do it.
 
I could for the most part. I don't think I would be very effective. My attention span isn't very long.
 
I could work from home with no problem. Half of my team could do so as well. Two of the guys who report to me are in the field and cannot do their jobs from home because they have to visit facilities and do one on one coaching.

My wife is a librarian and works with the public so she’s working until they shut down the library.
 
I do.

But we remain open.

I can do my job from home in every way, to the extent that I'm shocked I have an office.

I conduct 5-7 mediation conferences each day, ALL by phone.

I also write answers to motions and stuff, on my computer.

I have to respond to questions, over email.

I have to enter leave and perform other admin funtions, via our intranet.

:keyboardsmash:
 
shoeless said:
One of our executive managers has his whole team working from home today in a mock quarantine test to flush out any issues. Our IT dep't has been tasked to examine the load on our VPN if everyone had to do it.
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They are discussing doing that at work for a day next week to see how that would work.
 
We're going online only for classes for at least the first half of the upcoming quarter (and I suspect it may be the full quarter); so we're going to find out how effectively we can all teach from home real soon.. may you live in interesting times indeed!
 
No. I have to supply our stores and customers with merchandise. I have to physically move and package the stuff and receive shipments. Can't do it from home.

Most of our employees at this facility probably could work from home, but if they go that route it would be me and like five other people that would have to come in unless we shut down completely.
 
all of us in my office have laptops now. and we have vpn to network in from anywhere. we have to, we have 25,000+ people in about 200 offices in 17 countries around the world. :eek:
 
I'm been teaching my college classes online since the beginning of this month, we're using software called Zoom, and Microsoft Teams.
 
Working in a recovery home, working from home there is not an option. The college is heading into spring break and have asked all instructors to have a plan to teach online in case they decide to go that way. That is no problem for me as I have taught this class online many times.
 
Retired so no excuse.
No plans to be a hermit, but I need to take all reasonable precautions as I hit several at risk categories.
1. Over 60
2. Still smoking
3. Mild high blood pressure, on medication.
4. Compromised immune system, RA medication
So I’m washing hands way more often, avoiding large crowds and cramped spaces, and lengthening my personal space as much as possible in public.
 
As long as I have my laptop and an internet connection, I can do my job anywhere.

I get more done at the office though, since there's not the temptation to play with the cats, fiddle with a guitar, wander through the kitchen looking for snacks, spend 30 minutes looking for the perfect album to play in the background, etc.
 
I am currently working from home. I work in a small startup (I was the sixth employee when hired last March, now we have about 20) and normally work out of a small, three-person office in an incubator. I went in yesterday, because I had three hour-long teleconferences, but will mostly be working at home for the foreseeable future, stopping in now and then to pick up mail, etc.
 
I was just mildly ripped by my boss because our Poland facility decided to push out our new remote access solution to their users despite the project (my project) being only in pilot phase. Of course, the Poland facility made this decision unilaterally without even informing anyone they were doing it.

To be fair, they have good reason: their current remote access has a hard limit of 25 users, which while sufficient for normal remote access, would be woefully inadequate for a mass work from home scenario. But a heads up would have been nice.

My boss lives under the delusion that my job title "engineer" bestows upon me some magical control over what people do halfway around the world and who report to a completely different management structure.

Ok, rant over. I feel better. Thanks.

But anyway, yes, I could easily work from home. Unlike most everyone else, I don't like to work from home, but I can do everything I need to do without bothering to put pants on.
 
I can do 90% of my job from home, and sometimes do. I even have a nice monitor & keyboard to plug my laptop into.

As long as the plague continues, I will be bringing my laptop home each night, in case the buses decide to shut down or something.
 
I can work from home if the building is empty but if the building is empty there would be no work to do.
 
GomezAddams said:
I was just mildly ripped by my boss because our Poland facility decided to push out our new remote access solution to their users despite the project (my project) being only in pilot phase. Of course, the Poland facility made this decision unilaterally without even informing anyone they were doing it.

To be fair, they have good reason: their current remote access has a hard limit of 25 users, which while sufficient for normal remote access, would be woefully inadequate for a mass work from home scenario. But a heads up would have been nice.

My boss lives under the delusion that my job title "engineer" bestows upon me some magical control over what people do halfway around the world and who report to a completely different management structure.

Ok, rant over. I feel better. Thanks.

But anyway, yes, I could easily work from home. Unlike most everyone else, I don't like to work from home, but I can do everything I need to do without bothering to put pants on.
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i have a toy "magic wand" hung up on the wall by my work station and it's labeled "magic wand", specifically to remind folks that there's no such thing and don't ask for what is not possible.
 
I stand at a parts counter all day and deal with phone sales and walk-ins...I'm gonna get it eventually...
 
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