Are you currently working from home?

[Benjamin Opel]

I've been working from home since March of last year... I actually really enjoyed working from home for the first few months but it's getting a little tedious now. I've managed to save so much money on fuel, that's a huge bonus - plus I'm able to do grocery shopping during my lunch breaks which I have never been able to do before, that is obviously so convenient.

What about yourself?

 

[Noodles]

I didn't get the opportunity to work from home. My job involves being on site (it's a data center). Fortunately, there isn't really anyone else around most of the time in the building.

 

[Benjamin Opel]

I didn't get the opportunity to work from home. My job involves being on site (it's a data center). Fortunately, there isn't really anyone else around most of the time in the building.

Oooo nice! I'd love to work in a Data center, I'd probably switch the servers off before I leave just to piss someone off..

 

[Khamon]

We're been scheduled in skeleton crews two days a week, since April; then we work from home the other three days. It is nice to piece the housework into my workday and it's good practice for retirement. But I feel rushed at work to get done what needs to be done when we're only allowed to be on campus twelve hours a week.

Working from home still doesn't seem normal, though; and y'all know Khamon is so very normal ha ha ha. We're told that we may return to a regular schedule "sometime during the Summer." Students will study remotely through the Summer semester and return to campus in August according to the current revision of the latest version of the most recently enacted copy of the Cylonic plan.

The part time gig at the residential military college has been taught consistently in person. We've worn masks and sanitized with sprays and wipes and lotions. They've also been tested weekly and granted no leave. It's honestly a nice break to have somewhere to go two nights a week.

 

[Rose Karuna]

Before I retired (this year) I was a product manager working from home. In some cases, it really works. I had less people standing around my desk wanting to know about things that they could look up manuals and I got a lot more work done. OTOH - collaboration with co-workers became more difficult, even with zoom. I also worked WAY more hours from home and that was because I was global and had conference calls from 4 in the morning until 9 or 10 at night sometimes. The best of all worlds for me would have been working three or four days at home and then maybe one or two in the office.

Even though I'm retired I've had a few offers to work from home with some temporary jobs but I think that I was as burned out as hell and the thought of going back to doing what I was doing before made my stomach tie up in knots. I wasn't aware I even felt like this until I was asked about going back into the work force part time.

I do miss the interaction with my co-workers but I think that will subside as I gradually begin to go back out into the world and do the things on my "retiree list" now that I'm vaccinated.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I have also been working from home for like a year now. ... I have mixed feelings. I LOVE sleeping in and not getting dressed and commuting. BUT I'm a manager and a somewhat social person so I miss a lot of people and miss easy in person interaction.

 

[Beebo Brink]

I've been working from home since March 2020, and I like it so much that I've decided to continue working from home even after our office opens up. With reduced hours starting this year and no commute, I may even put off retirement and continue working from home until I'm 70. Makes it so easy and I need that extra money for feeding my menagerie of cats and dogs.

In my case, the change of location has little to no practical effect. My office is filled with introverts and we didn't talk all that much even when we were in the same room. I mostly used IM to consult with my co-workers who sat just a few feet away from my desk. All my work has always been done through the computer because my clients are all out-of-state.

Home has a few disadvantages: more noise, more commotion, although in some ways that's good too because I'm forced to get up more often to open the door for a dog that wants out, a cat that wants out, another cat that wants out, a dog that wants in now, etc. These interruptions don't outweigh the advantages. I hadn't realized just how much I was drained by the 45-minute drive to work and another 45-minutes back until I wasn't doing it anymore.

Once things get back to "normal" we may have a few mandatory office days for company meetings, but from comments I've heard, only a few people are really interested in returning full-time. I'd say easily half to 2/3 are going to work from home more often than not.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

We just had a 1 year WFH town hall, on Zoom. We are allowing the option of any mix of WFH and office from now on, with some people already moved out of state and even out of country - we now have a co-worker in Ukraine.

I think I'm going to 2 days a wekk, which will allow me to keep a permanent desk.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

I normally mostly work from home, but since the part of working that actually makes money was going to cons, I really didn't do much -work-. I've still a pretty decent amount of stock.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Last year Ohio State never came back from Spring Break. While lab sections have met, none of my classes have been in person for a year and I have not been to my office except to grab books last March. My students don't turn on their webcams for the most part, and I don't ask them to because they have enough stress without having to be camera-ready for every class. But that means I have an entire year of students that for the most part, I have never seen. I got into teaching for the students, not knowing them is difficult. And I have come to realize how much I teach in casual conversations around class that I can't capture in a Zoom meeting.

 

[Kalel]

I work at a small Voice-over dubbing studio Here in miami and we really didn't stop.( Boss insisted we were essential) While things slowed down alittle it eventually picked up and even grew as we were the only dubbing company still open during the lockdown . The project managers ,Mixers and Administration teams worked from home while Directors, Video team and Production Stayed and practiced social distancing. I stopped taking the bus to work and started driving (2 hours to get to work and back Pre-pandemic became 40 minutes)

We spent a few sleepless nights for several weeks getting voice talents and their computer working with audio and teaching them how to send files. We offered list of equipment and if needed hopped on the phone and remote control their computers ( can you believe how many people don't know how to operate a computer in 2020?) it was a massive undertaking but now a good portion of our talent pool work from home. Audio quality is a big issue when you can't fully control the environment. Getting people to record in their closets and home made recording booths has been quite a task and its alittle slower working at home either remote or by themselves but they appreciate it as for some people this is the only job they had left.


I'm responsible for coordinating the upload and downloads of files which was quite a process the first few months. we only had one scare back in july where our Janitor and IT person got corvid and they shut us down for a weekend. Allot of our processes are not automated and it was a nightmare trying to do it over remote software. I'd rather work in office.. while i did enjoy being at home for a week i felt like i could get more done in building and less distracted.

Everyone has been great at keeping us informed and staying home and getting tested if they were exposed. We wipe down all of our rooms between sessions and replaced some equipment from being cleaned too much. our CEO finally came last week after nearly a year of not being in the office.

 

[danielravennest]

When I retired from Boeing, several years ago, I continued doing the same kind of engineering and design work I used to. It's just part time now, and from a bedroom that's been converted to a home office. So the virus didn't change my lifestyle that much. Fewer shopping trips and no more eating out are the biggest changes. I do miss seeing and talking to people in person. I live on three acres of mostly woods, so going outside and doing yard work keeps me sane.

 

[Eunoli]

I work from home and have been for years prior to this. It's really my preferred way to work.

 

[Beebo Brink]

We are allowing the option of any mix of WFH and office from now on, with some people already moved out of state and even out of country - we now have a co-worker in Ukraine.

That seems to be the plan at my company as well, and several of the people I work with on a daily basis took the opportunity to move from their branch office to another state entirely. One woman moved out of California over to Utah, to be closer to her aging parents (and get her kids back in school). The other moved from Chicago to Minnesota where she formed a pandemic pod with her sister's family.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

The unfortunate thing is, the only other guy in my group moved away and took another job before the change in policy evolved. Which left me a group of one, so now I've been moved into another group that does more firefighting and less new development.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I've been working from home for several years now, since my illness, and I love it. I'm a self-employed contractor, as part of a multidisciplinary international team working on a series of projects, and I have colleagues all over the US, South America, every European time zone, and several South East Asian countries.

Most of it I can do in my own time, consulting with others and working with them as and when need to.

That's why I live here. I work for an hour or so, get bored with that, and them come in here or twitter for a bit until I feel like working again.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I have never worked from home. Even with my current job during the pandemic, I work in the office, as working from home isn't practical given some of my duties.

I've given the matter some thought, though: if working from home were offered to me, would I take it? And the answer I came up with was no. No, I wouldn't. I actually enjoy the office, and going to work every day actually helps me keep track of what day it is. Plus, I like the idea of my workplace and my relax place being completely separate. When I'm at home, I don't want to be reminded of work. And, finally, I think I would be less productive in a WFH setting because distractions.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

That's why I live here. I work for an hour or so, get bored with that, and them come in here or twitter for a bit until I feel like working again.

Your job sounds interesting... you're a lawyer, right? And I relate to this quoted piece... It took me a while to get over the guilt of not working constantly, but I think it's fair to goof off sometimes when the work is slow, because I do pay for it later when more is going on and especially during certain times of the month and year.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Your job sounds interesting... you're a lawyer, right? And I relate to this quoted piece... It took me a while to get over the guilt of not working constantly, but I think it's fair to goof off sometimes when the work is slow, because I do pay for it later when more is going on and especially during certain times of the month and year.

My job now is predominantly coding (I've picked up various skills over the years). I had to give up my previous job in the criminal justice system some years ago after a serious illness, but fortunately I had this to fall back on. For me it's great -- I'm getting paid to do something I'd do anyway (though not as much) for the sake of it.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

My job now is predominantly coding (I've picked up various skills over the years). I had to give up my previous job in the criminal justice system some years ago after a serious illness, but fortunately I had this to fall back on. For me it's great -- I'm getting paid to do something I'd do anyway (though not as much) for the sake of it.

ahhhh, nice. Not often I've heard of lawyers moving in that direction... though I know a lot of lawyers do something other than law. This website definitely is disproportionately coders.