The Covid19 WFH Thread

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.

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!

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.

FabiParas

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.

Old-Dutch

I’d take working from home all day. Things have been crazy busy for me since lockdown - probably the busiest I’ve ever been in terms of meetings and workload and even with the kids not at school and the childminder I’d still take this any day.

I am missing getting to go to the gym at lunch and listening to music on my commute but if things settled down I could find ways to do work out every day at home plus listen to some more music.

Office work as we knew it is dead. After staffing, premises costs have to be a business’s biggest outlay - once they realise they don’t need to pay the costs for the premises they will bin them off. I said this a few weeks ago on the other board- interesting to see Ed’s place considering this already. Viva la revolution.

That sounds like a great arrangement in my opinion Ed. I’d love that as an option but will never happen in the Higher Education sector.

zackster

Old-Dutch Office work as we knew it is dead. After staffing, premises costs have to be a business’s biggest outlay - once they realise they don’t need to pay the costs for the premises they will bin them off. I said this a few weeks ago on the other board-

1000% agree. They’ve now realized that they can squeeze people just as hard without having them under the magnifying glass.

303abuser

when i was interviewing for jobs a dozen years ago, before i started my own business, this was exactly my problem. i’m looking at senior ba positions, no direct reports, stakeholders all over the map, and they still wanted me in the office everyday. asking why we couldn’t do the position from home was akin to blasphemy. that was the end for me, glad i haven’t had to go back to that short-sighted corporate nonsense.

Old-Dutch

Don’t worry there’s plenty of software solutions they can put on employees’ laptops to monitor their daily output.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/technology/employee-monitoring-work-from-home-virus.html?referringSource=articleShare

Along_the_Wire

Old-Dutch Measure the outcome, Dutchy - fuck that shit