Red Mosquito

I'm allowed to work from home two days a week - have to go in for the other days

I'm currently WFH every other day. I'd work out of the office every day if I could.

Rangi Guy wrote:I'm allowed to work from home two days a week - have to go in for the other days

That strikes me as the worst of all worlds, workflow wise. Like might actually result in decreased productivity without any significant decrease in transmission.

verb_to_trust wrote:I'm currently WFH every other day. I'd work out of the office every day if I could.

Weird that you don't take it for granted that everyone can just work from home for 2 weeks and this would be over.

simple schoolboy wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:I'm currently WFH every other day. I'd work out of the office every day if I could.

Weird that you don't take it for granted that everyone can just work from home for 2 weeks and this would be over.

We are split up into groups. I think the idea is if someone gets sick you don't have to quarantine the whole group at once.

You are right that productivity is terrible at home though. I'm constantly doing the dishes, getting a run in on the treadmill, ect. It's a joke.

simple schoolboy wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:I'm allowed to work from home two days a week - have to go in for the other days

That strikes me as the worst of all worlds, workflow wise. Like might actually result in decreased productivity without any significant decrease in transmission.

At the moment transmission isn't an issue here

Rangi Guy wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:I'm allowed to work from home two days a week - have to go in for the other days

That strikes me as the worst of all worlds, workflow wise. Like might actually result in decreased productivity without any significant decrease in transmission.

At the moment transmission isn't an issue here

Then you should all go back to work

verb_to_trust wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:I'm allowed to work from home two days a week - have to go in for the other days

That strikes me as the worst of all worlds, workflow wise. Like might actually result in decreased productivity without any significant decrease in transmission.

At the moment transmission isn't an issue here

Then you should all go back to work

I like working from home

verb_to_trust wrote:How is "everyone" working from home in Australia? All you need are white collar jobs to keep things moving down there?

To be clear, I mean "everyone" in my workplace.

I hate working from home, I would prefer to be at the office.

verb_to_trust wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:I'm currently WFH every other day. I'd work out of the office every day if I could.

Weird that you don't take it for granted that everyone can just work from home for 2 weeks and this would be over.

We are split up into groups. I think the idea is if someone gets sick you don't have to quarantine the whole group at once.

You are right that productivity is terrible at home though. I'm constantly doing the dishes, getting a run in on the treadmill, ect. It's a joke.

If its 100% WFH, it seems like most employers are reporting a small gain or no net difference in productivity (you can go on the treadmill or run the dishes in the hour you would have lost on commuting). The switching back and forth is what makes things difficult, I would think.

You are doing the cohort thing the schools want to try? How does that work? Must be a niche field that works in (if it works).

Working from home is my nightmare fuel

I’m lucky my glasses are only needed for driving to see far distances. I tried contacts but putting things in my eye was an issue (didn’t get glasses until 48)

I’m working from home 100% and can go into the office IF I log in and select a day at least 24 hours ahead of time. If there is already 10% staff scheduled that day I want to go in then I cannot.

They were looking at us going in the first of the year to a regular schedule but that has been changed to after the first quarter if not beginning of summer.

Three times a week they have a company there who sanitizes all the public areas and once a week they sanitize the whole office.

As far as productivity goes there hasn’t really been a slippage and more than likely has been a gain. People aren’t worn out from driving into/out of the city and dealing with traffic. Can also sleep in a little more due to that. Plus people work longer days with more down time during the day to deal with kids/personal errands and appointments.

I was only at my company for I think it was 16 days before we were told to stay home so while I know some people I didn’t have a lot of interaction with them. Zoom meetings have helped me to get to know people by face/name and allowed personal interactions one on one but I think everyone in the office misses the physical interaction and I am pretty sure the company will sponsor a welcome back party when this Is all over

Sounds fucking awful

verb_to_trust wrote:Sounds fucking awful

Maybe the last part but I don’t find it nearly as horrible as it could be (see my lost in the coworker thread in the dump)

I’m sure the lack of interaction in the workplace is a downer for a lot of people but for me I didn’t have a whole lot to begin with in that short period of time. The zoom meetings have helped me to get to know my office but I definitely would rather it be in person. This is one place where people genuinely get along and there are no cliques.

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Peeps wrote:

Strat wrote:

Peeps wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:Wearing a mask is pretty horrible, to be honest.

My glasses fog up and I can't see a thing.

I've only done it two or three times this year and that was bad enough.

Are you so blind that you can’t go without your glasses for a bit?

I am. It sucks and I can’t do mask and glasses. But I wear contacts for 95% of the time.

I get that. Mine fog up too but for the 30-40 minutes I’m in the grocery store I can get by without my glasses

As of earlier this week, our state government has mandated that surgical-grade masks must be worn in all healthcare environments.

Because I'm a public sector worker who is employed by our health service, that unfortunately includes my office - even though it's nowhere near any members of the public or patients, etc.

So I'm working from home (as is everyone else) because forget trying to wear a mask for 8+ hours a day while trying to work.

Getting back to your point, I wouldn't be able to read this computer screen without my glasses, the idea of going without them isn't going to fly.

Face shields in lieu of masks. Issue solved.

Geezes. No wonder all of you are psychopaths. You enjoy working at an office $$

I’ve been work from home for two years and I’m never going back to a shitty stale office environment. Hell no. I’ve been much more productive and happy since setting up a home office.

Strat wrote:Geezes. No wonder all of you are psychopaths. You enjoy working at an office $$

I’ve been work from home for two years and I’m never going back to a shitty stale office environment. Hell no. I’ve been much more productive and happy since setting up a home office.

all offices are not the same strat

fridays we have a catered lunch. there are snacks (protein bars, fiber bars etc), water, bubly water, pop (soda for you heathens), fruit bowl, 4 or 5 varieties of dry cereal, almond and regular milk in the fridge, a dishwasher we load up ourselves and dishes are put away for us, a microwave.

factor in that everyone is friendly and talks to each other adds to it (mind you i was there for two weeks and they had a birthday cake and brownies for all birthdays for the month but i was the first they could recall who actually had a birthday on the last day of the month that they celebrate birthdays)

the worse part about working in the office is the drive home

I work in shipping/receiving, so no working from home for me. Ever. Kind of jealous. My wife has been able to completely WFH since March, which is really nice when you have young children like we do.

I might be out of a job after Christmas, which wouldn't be the worst thing. Was getting burnt our on education before covid started. Not sure what else I would do though.

Peeps wrote:

Strat wrote:Geezes. No wonder all of you are psychopaths. You enjoy working at an office $$

I’ve been work from home for two years and I’m never going back to a shitty stale office environment. Hell no. I’ve been much more productive and happy since setting up a home office.

all offices are not the same strat

fridays we have a catered lunch. there are snacks (protein bars, fiber bars etc), water, bubly water, pop (soda for you heathens), fruit bowl, 4 or 5 varieties of dry cereal, almond and regular milk in the fridge, a dishwasher we load up ourselves and dishes are put away for us, a microwave.

factor in that everyone is friendly and talks to each other adds to it (mind you i was there for two weeks and they had a birthday cake and brownies for all birthdays for the month but i was the first they could recall who actually had a birthday on the last day of the month that they celebrate birthdays)

the worse part about working in the office is the drive home

Almond AND regular milk?!?! Im sold!