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Re: I hope work from home continues

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Post by dunefox »

npsimons wrote: post #570
dunefox wrote: post #432

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> having a video conference open all day with everyone in This sounds absolutely horrible .

> This sounds absolutely horrible. And now you know how it feels to work in an open floor plan or cubicle where someone can come along and break your flow causing you to have to waste over 20 minutes getting back into it. The key with the all day video conference is you can mute it and set your status as away when you need to do deep work. Can't do that in an office environment.

Or, you know, since I'm already working from home I can just not be in a "digital office". An open floor office is already bad, so there's not need to reproduce it.

It's simply intrusive and unnecessary.

Re: I hope work from home continues

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Post by ryanmercer »

pottertheotter wrote: post #250
globular-toast wrote: post #109

> Do not have to go to work sick, because they act like you murdered 30 children if you call in sick. > Do not have to be exposed to multiple sick coworkers at any given time. This is a really important one and something that occurred to me recently. Now that we've all established that we can, in fact, work from home just fine, we should at the very, very least stop the ridiculous practice of coming into work sick. P…

The thing that baffled me as I read this point is that the choice set when sick is (a) go to work and work, or (b) stay home and work. What we should be discussing is not working at all when you're sick. Rest and get better. I can't be the only one that finds this odd?

If I have a cold, it's annoying and makes it hard to breathe but it doesn't prevent me from working. Getting a few colds a year while working in an office is normal. I'm more than happy to work with a cold, I'd just prefer to do it from home than at an office where I'm probably going to share it with at least one other person.

If I have to make a mad dash to the toilet every few minutes, then working isn't practical. If I'm burning up with fever and feel like a truck hit me, working isn't practical.

Re: I hope work from home continues

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Post by dunefox »

mprovost wrote: post #537
dunefox wrote: post #496

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Being watched by all colleagues all day is extremely invasive. I would definitely not want to work in this environment.

You just described every open plan office ever. At least this way nobody can look over your shoulder at your screen. And you can turn your camera off if you want a break.

Yes, open plan offices are horrible. No need to reproduce something just as horrible and intrusive when working from home.

I would just turn both microphone and camera off; if somebody wants something they can message me, like a sane person.

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Post by lvspiff »

zikzak wrote: post #431
lvspiff wrote: post #91

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I worked at a building that was right next to the runway under the flight path for a major international airport. We could wave to people in the windows. Our AC went out (In las vegas - it gets to 120+ some days in summer) and they brought in portable A/C units that were louder than the planes. Then they took our bottled water away. While these issues aren't normal they are out there and they are replicated by employ…

I'll bite. Why did they take away the water?

Most of us thought it was cost savings. It was at a university where even the cost of bottled water somehow would be pointed to as the culprit for why we needed to be furloughed.

Re: I hope work from home continues

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Post by folkrav »

ghaff wrote: post #236
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #185

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I managed distributed teams long before COVID. Having people meet in person a few times a year does wonders for team cohesion. Some people handle remote communications just fine. Others were raised on a steady diet of internet flame wars and approach the screen names in their company chat the same way: As enemies to argue with every day. Putting people in front of each other associates a real person with that screen…

Yeah. Remote is fine but you need to budget time and money for plane tickets and hotels. That's been the tough thing for me the past year. I'm normally remote although I could go into an office--and am technically assigned to one but I normally travel to a lot of events as well as off-sites. >Face to face meetings need to happen on regular company time as much as possible. Yep. I sometimes hear people talking about h…

> I sort of resent it when I need to travel on a Sunday to get to some event/meeting

As you should. It was something that should have been your time, and became company time.

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Post by mywittyname »

desi_ninja wrote: post #571
mywittyname wrote: post #546

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So are the 996 work weeks.

one good thing, one bad thing - ruled out ?

I mean, "working 12 hour days, six days a week" - "naps after lunch" = "in the office 12 hours a day, six days a week, but only working 11 hours a day."

Not a trade that I'd make.

Re: I hope work from home continues

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Post by dheera »

ghaff wrote: post #254
dheera wrote: post #180

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> weekend or week-long dev retreats are ideal When you do retreats do keep in mind that not everyone will want to spend a week or weekend away from their family, and that retreats with a bunch of people who can be social nonstop for 12 hours can also be the worst nightmare for introverts. Keep it optional, make sure it's clear that it's optional, make sure junior employees don't feel pressured :)

There's pretty much no such thing as optional if there's a team off-site unless it's "I can't" for some reason rather than "I don't want to." Multi-day off-sites are sometimes necessary but weekend is a no go.

But does your "off-site" really need to be off-site?

If you're a fully remote company, sure, it makes sense, but for a company with an actual local office, taking the team to Hawaii for 3 days just to have meetings that could have been had at conference rooms at your usual office isn't always appreciated by every member of your team, especially the ones who have {health conditions, children, pets, side gigs, ...}

Re: I hope work from home continues

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Post by armandososa »

bkovacev wrote: post #324
armandososa wrote: post #286

ITT: Everybody saying how awful OP's workplace is. But ~10mins of commuting? That's heaven! If I had to commute to a local company it would take me 90mins in a good day, or rent a place for half the salary such local company would be paying me. I've been working remotely for 14 years now and I'm never coming back. Ever.

I believe you have misread it - the commute is an hour +/- 10 minutes.

I am an idiot. Thanks for the correction.

Re: I hope work from home continues

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Post by armandososa »

mradmin wrote: post #298
armandososa wrote: post #286

ITT: Everybody saying how awful OP's workplace is. But ~10mins of commuting? That's heaven! If I had to commute to a local company it would take me 90mins in a good day, or rent a place for half the salary such local company would be paying me. I've been working remotely for 14 years now and I'm never coming back. Ever.

It's "an hour a day(+/- 10 minutes)" which I read as "an hour a day give or take 10 minutes"

Silly me. You're right.
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