[lug] curiosity about WFH

[Stephen Queen]

I needed to express my concerns about the graph in the aforementioned link
in the section on Flattening the Curve. I know this is a small group that
has very little influence on what can or will happen. But I respect most if
not all the members and maybe someone can help my thinking. I worked most
of my life doing hardware engineering. One of the things pointed out to me
early in my career was that when a component of hardware vendor didn't
mention or wasn't clear on a specification that I should be skeptical
regarding the spec. Another fact I noticed about specifications is that
good specs don't come without some cost to other specs. For example,
sometimes a low noise component came at the cost of higher power. The
component manufacturer would put the specs on noise right at the front of
the data sheet, and the specs on power would be buried in the back. Looking
at the graph I'm questioning, there is no label on the x axis or the y
axis. The line showing the healthcare capacity is not labeled as well. I
understand that the reason is that these are all unknowns. What concerns me
the most is this info comes from people that are most interested in not
overwhelming the health care system. With an unknown T axis as I expressed
in my previous message, I'm very concerned about other just as important
resources becoming over whelmed. Examples of these resources are
availability and distribution of food, fresh water, power, communication,
and sanitation resources. What do other people think or know about these
concerns?

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 5:25 PM Tommaso Curto <tommaso.curto at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The situation in the company I work for is very well described in the
> article below... happy reading!
> https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/16/charter-coronavirus-work-home/amp/
>
> Tommaso
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 4:41 PM George Sexton <georges at mhsoftware.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The company I'm working for has a great WFH policy. My manager, and two
>> other people on our team aren't even in-state. One in San Diego, one in
>> Arkansas, and one somewhere in the Bay Area. They all work from home. I've
>> never personally met the one in Arkansas and I've been there two years.
>>
>> It's typical for snow storm days to just take laptops home the night
>> before. There's a lot of good infrastructure. We've also got software
>> (VOIP) phones, so if you dial my work #, the app on my PC gives me the
>> option to answer. The same app (Avaya IX Workplace) also does video
>> conferencing. For headset, I have a bluetooth dongle that works with my
>> hearing aids. Our only concern now is that if we're 100% WFH, the VPN will
>> be overrun. We encountered some issues so far, but pretty minor.
>>
>> As far as the current crisis goes, I looked at it last Tuesday (3/10)
>> afternoon and said this is crazy, and I started WFH on Wednesday (3/11) of
>> last week. The company as a whole finally declared WFH for North America
>> effective Monday (3/16). EMEA is up to the site director.
>>
>> They haven't locked down the building, so if people need to go in to do
>> hardware work, they can. I've heard in EMEA that the buildings are locked
>> down and you need specific permission to enter.
>>
>> George
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/16/2020 5:00 PM, Davide Del Vento wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>> I'm curious about the WFH policies at various companies (your employers).
>> Have they relaxed the WFH options? Mandated WFH?
>>
>> My employer, NCAR/UCAR, on March 6th relaxed its policies from the
>> previous sort of "discuss options with your supervisors and find a mutual
>> agreement" to "if you do not feel comfortable coming to work, any employee
>> may choose to work from home". Last Friday, March 13th, almost at the end
>> of the day, they made WFH mandatory for practically everybody and forbade
>> access by staff to its buildings starting tomorrow at noon. On Sunday PM,
>> they even abruptly cancelled shuttle and cafeteria services for today,
>> making it quite challenging for those who do not drive and needed to
>> collect items from office before the building became off-limits.
>>
>> Anybody willing to share what others are doing? I'm quite curious.
>> Cheers,
>> Davide
>>
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