[lug] curiosity about WFH

[Tommaso Curto]

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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