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Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are asking staff to work from home

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Re: Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are asking staff to work from home

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Post by int_19h »

strstr wrote: post #4

This is a massive accidental experiment on the effectiveness of fully remote teams. Most of these companies are fairly reticent to have even a few workers remote, let alone entire teams/orgs. It'll be interesting to see if teams push for something closer to full remote wherever it worked well (or if some employees will want it, having not realized what it was like). Plausibly teams that it works well for will have gr…

Microsoft is remote-friendly, and has the infrastructure for it. Team culture varies, but that also changed a lot overall - it used to be that you had to specifically ask people to create meetings with videoconferencing enabled, but now it seems to be the norm.

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Post by throwaway88483 »

BigBubbleButt wrote: post #9
freepor wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If this works well I will eat my hat. This represents: companies with no remote-work culture (thus systems that are not fully documented, etc.), forcing employees into this suddenly (so they will not have a proper space at home set up for this... some of them will be in the same room as a crying baby), while their spouse may also be working from home due to the virus, while everyone is also thinking about getting a d…

> while everyone is also thinking about getting a deadly virus every time they leave the house Am I the only person who isn't worried about the coronavirus? I'm not exaggerating when I say it hasn't effected my life at all, except for the effort it took me to write this comment. I live in San Francisco, if it matters.

You’re not the only person. The people licking shrines in Iran aren’t worried about coronavirus either.

Re: Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are asking staff to work from home

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Post by IGotThroughIt »

BigBubbleButt wrote: post #9
freepor wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If this works well I will eat my hat. This represents: companies with no remote-work culture (thus systems that are not fully documented, etc.), forcing employees into this suddenly (so they will not have a proper space at home set up for this... some of them will be in the same room as a crying baby), while their spouse may also be working from home due to the virus, while everyone is also thinking about getting a d…

> while everyone is also thinking about getting a deadly virus every time they leave the house Am I the only person who isn't worried about the coronavirus? I'm not exaggerating when I say it hasn't effected my life at all, except for the effort it took me to write this comment. I live in San Francisco, if it matters.

It's been said multiple times but I'll repeat in case you've not heard this: it really isn't about contracting the virus since the rate of survival is pretty high but rather more about people panicking and creating shortages. This is coming in full swing. Ports are emptying, fewer and fewer ships are coming from China and east Asia. It might get very very ugly.

Buy your supplies early enough and take other measures such as the create the ability to grow your own food if you live in a place where that's possible. I've done both and I'm going to be increasing my stock in the coming week based on the circumstances that present themselves.

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Post by mlang23 »

What an exaggregation. Nice way to add to the overblown panic. In italy, about 250km south ofrm where I live, they have closed schools and universities, and disallowed public events. Today, I will be visiting a music festival in my hometown. No signs of cancellation. Clearly, some parts of the world react like a 9 year old girl.

Re: Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are asking staff to work from home

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Post by sswezey »

tristanj wrote: post #2

The article is a bit out of date, it's not only Seattle. Facebook and Google announced tonight that all employees in the Bay Area can work from home. Microsoft/Linkedin announced all employees on the west coast can work from home.

It's still accurate for Amazon.

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Post by Gigablah »

mlang23 wrote: post #14

What an exaggregation. Nice way to add to the overblown panic. In italy, about 250km south ofrm where I live, they have closed schools and universities, and disallowed public events. Today, I will be visiting a music festival in my hometown. No signs of cancellation. Clearly, some parts of the world react like a 9 year old girl.

No need to be rude towards the organizers of your music festival.

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Post by daniel_iversen »

Dropbox is too[1] and what I like about this is that their main motive (I think, based on the kind of person I’ve seen Drew being) isn’t just not their employees getting sick, or it spreading inside Dropbox, but also to make their tiny contribution to it spreading less in the world in general. And in the article it mentions it’s only in Seattle that these other companies are instituting work from home, and it seems like it’s only because some of their employees are already infected! If everyone in the world that could would just work from home for a while and limit physical contact, then the trajectory of the spread would be much different and maybe we could nip it in the bud.

[1] https://twitter.com/drewhouston/status/1235747829307437056?s...

Re: Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are asking staff to work from home

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Post by mlang23 »

BigBubbleButt wrote: post #9
freepor wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If this works well I will eat my hat. This represents: companies with no remote-work culture (thus systems that are not fully documented, etc.), forcing employees into this suddenly (so they will not have a proper space at home set up for this... some of them will be in the same room as a crying baby), while their spouse may also be working from home due to the virus, while everyone is also thinking about getting a d…

> while everyone is also thinking about getting a deadly virus every time they leave the house Am I the only person who isn't worried about the coronavirus? I'm not exaggerating when I say it hasn't effected my life at all, except for the effort it took me to write this comment. I live in San Francisco, if it matters.

No, you are not alone. I dont care about Coronavirus at all. I dont feel threatened personally, and I consider the media hype completely overblown. There are still a few of us that dont behave like sissies.

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Post by mlang23 »

Gigablah wrote: post #16
mlang23 wrote: post #14

What an exaggregation. Nice way to add to the overblown panic. In italy, about 250km south ofrm where I live, they have closed schools and universities, and disallowed public events. Today, I will be visiting a music festival in my hometown. No signs of cancellation. Clearly, some parts of the world react like a 9 year old girl.

No need to be rude towards the organizers of your music festival.

Either I didnt parse your sarcasm, or you didn't parse mine. I am happy for the festival not being canceled, and I think italy is way overreacting.

Re: Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are asking staff to work from home

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Post by kilroy_jones »

mlang23 wrote: post #18
BigBubbleButt wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> while everyone is also thinking about getting a deadly virus every time they leave the house Am I the only person who isn't worried about the coronavirus? I'm not exaggerating when I say it hasn't effected my life at all, except for the effort it took me to write this comment. I live in San Francisco, if it matters.

No, you are not alone. I dont care about Coronavirus at all. I dont feel threatened personally, and I consider the media hype completely overblown. There are still a few of us that dont behave like sissies.

Pretty bad attitude to have considering how your carelessness can adversely affect many others.
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