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.
The Covid19 WFH Thread
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.
Hate WFH personally …mainly a social thing although have started to meet mates for a cheeky beer at least once a week
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.
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.
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.
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.
Joeyp At least you aren’t in commercial property mate. The downsizing will be off the charts
Smallman1 You actually have to get the membership first.
Along_the_Wire You actually have to get the membership first.
That’ll be no problem at all.
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.
We use Okta. Absolute shitshow.
Smallman1 How come?
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 How come?
Friends in high places, you know that!
Smallman1 Why aren’t you a member now?
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.
We’re not expecting to go back until 1 September at the earliest. Some have expressed a desire, we just had a company survey, that they wanted to return but to do so would mean temp checks, closed off kitchen areas, masks in the office. They swiftly changed their minds on that. The psychological effect of that is too much for me.
For me working with Bermuda, NY and, since Covid, SF means WFH has worked out fine. Although I’m working longer. Im more efficient as dont have the commute to handle.
Could I do it full time? Yes. Would I want to? No. Purely on the social aspect of seeing other people.
I’ll definitely be requesting an at least one day WFH arrangement as the joy of it means I spend some quality development time with the kids.