The Covid19 WFH Thread

Along_the_Wire

I’ve had to come into the office today - bit of a shock to the system, I have to say.

Cycled in after training locally - work have made a lot of effort to make things safe and it’s pretty good to be honest. No canteen, not kitchens, so no coffees, Cokes Zeros or pickled onion Monster Munch to be seen.

After moaning about how difficult it is working from home, I find myself immediately wanting to do it.

I’m gonna be in two or three times a week from next week - there is very little point to be honest, it just makes my day longer with the commuting, but it is really good to see a handful of other people (there’s about 30 of us in a building for 2,500 people)

Smallman1

Am going to head in next week myself.

Need to see some different vistas.

Hate working from home, this groundhog day existence isn’t for me, struggling a little actually.

Along_the_Wire

Smallman1 Hate working from home, this groundhog day existence isn’t for me, struggling a little actually.

Same here. I seem to be doing less work actually at work than I was doing at home.

HopHead

Smallman1 Hate working from home, this groundhog day existence isn’t for me, struggling a little actually.

Ed I imagine you love a bit of a float around the office, charming the dorises, mucking in with the lads. In at 9:30am, sitting down to work at 11am.

Jules72

Hate WFH personally …mainly a social thing although have started to meet mates for a cheeky beer at least once a week

Hursty

I’ve actually done some work this morning, only because the wife and kids went out!

Not going to lie, this has been a truly difficult situation at home with 2 youngsters climbing the walls every day and trying to work. I’ve not enjoyed it all from a totally selfish view.

Fingers crossed our kids will go back into school come June, although that isn’t ideal with all the measures they are putting in place, but I do think it will be beneficial all round.

Roll on 2021, what a shitshow 2020 has been.

Joeyp

Hursty pretty much the same here hursty.

good to see some of you wanting to get back into the office - I do office strategy for clients so it’s a worrying time!

Mad_Cyril

Struggling with throughput this last week or so.

Part motivation, part juggling with home schooling/entertaining, part client side slow down.

Weird situation, but keen to avoid a rut.

Better than working away mon-thurs though. Loving time with family in general and there are people who are worse off.

mono-stereo

I’ve been mainly working from home for the last year now in my current job. I enjoy my own space. Not really sure I could ever go back to a job that requires you to work in an office, even part time.

Along_the_Wire

Joeyp At least you aren’t in commercial property mate. The downsizing will be off the charts

Smallman1

We’re considering what role the office has post Covid-19.

We may go office-less after our lease expires and have a Soho / Shoreditch House membership for when we want to meet.

Millsy

Smallman1 loads of places will be doing that I reckon mate. Might see a resurgence of the absolute shitshow that is We Work.

Along_the_Wire

Smallman1 You actually have to get the membership first.

Heno

Smallman1 theirs a massive refit going on at the moment in it(shoreditch house)

Smallman1

Along_the_Wire You actually have to get the membership first.

That’ll be no problem at all.

Along_the_Wire

Smallman1 How come?

Hursty

My mate has just been told he is WFH for 3 days a week as standard now.

My brothers company have just dropped one of their offices, it really is interesting.

My tip for you all, invest in tech companies such as Palo Alto, they are the leaders in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), which is basically the future for WFM technologies. No more backhaul VPN to the HQ’s then off to the clouds for SAAS apps, you now go direct to the SAAS via the Palo Alto infrastructure which only requires an Internet connection to reach. All policy is centrally orchestrated from the cloud so tech teams can WFM too.

Millsy

We use Okta. Absolute shitshow.

Smallman1

Along_the_Wire How come?

Friends in high places, you know that!

TitianWarrior

I’m hating working from home. My commute is only 10 minutes normally so no time gain for me not going in. We were told last week that our office won’t be open until Q4 at the earliest, which really put me on a downer. 2020 the year that wasn’t…

Along_the_Wire

Smallman1 Why aren’t you a member now?

Smallman1

Along_the_Wire Why aren’t you a member now?

There’s only so many hours in the day Grant!

zackster

I’ve been set up to work from home since I started my current Job 4 years ago, or when ever it was. Defo took some getting used to, but once I got the hang of it, I have to say it whips ass. Or I guess I should say it used to, until I was forced to work from my actual house. Been heavily fighting the urge to make the 12 hour drive down the the in-law’s vacation house, and take up residence.