Board 8 > Anyone being forced to work remotely due to coronavirus?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Remember that one topic that got derailed by foolmo and some other person about the merits/demerits of working remotely? Well, with a shit ton of white collar companies implementing mandatory work from home days now, I have a feeling we might be on the brink of a major systematic shift when this is all through.

~posted from my 800-person office in NYC~

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It's probably happening soon. They are letting managers here make the decision for now, but that is probably going to change
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Schools are doing this so no commuting will make my day a hell of a lot easier

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commute was so good this morning

that said, I was supposed to be working in Japan this month so... sorta

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I work at a really small company so it might not happen, but the surrounding area is probably going to be a major danger zone in a couple of weeks so who knows.

Freeways have been getting better by the day though, it's such a welcome reprieve.

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I live in Chicago but luckily I already work from home. Our CEO sent out an email saying that our main office is adding more hand sanitizer and reminding people to cover their mouth when they sneeze.

That's about it!

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I can and do on a regular basis, however my office is still open running.

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My company might be asking for volunteers for 14 days straight of work. I am down with that if I get paid for every hour

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My company has sent out a memo saying that if we suspect we are infected they'd like us to work from home

We'll see what happens when push comes to shove if it actually happens. Many people have work laptops that connect to a dock at work so they can take the laptop home and work remotely, but there's still a large portion of the office that has

I should really figure out how to connect my work laptop to my monitors at home.... I'm way less efficient at home when I don't have access to two extra monitors.

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I work from home 24/7 -- it's not bad!

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I am working from home.
Not due to the virus or anything. It's just a perk.

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My company is "investigating options" for letting people work from home (primarily desktop users, laptop users have no real issue)

I think it's heading towards finally upgrading everyone to laptops

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noooope. I work for a hospital and am considered an essential employee yaaaaay

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Yeah we're implementing some pretty interesting things like remote photoshoots and whatnot. This hysteria may actually change office culture pretty dramatically if the remote options are a success.

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I work maintenance onsite at a public building. I'm more likely to get temporarily laid off

Yeah I assumed all blue collar workers would go on with business as usual. Us white collars are just way more easily conducive to working from home.

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Scary times for me. I work at one of the best restaurants in the country but we are as slow as I've ever seen. Our price point is not conducive to weather this storm if guests are afraid to come in.

I'm figuring it out but damn, this might be a turning point in my life

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Aecioo posted...

I work at one of the best restaurants in the country but we are as slow as I've ever seen.

Where do you work? I am excited to potentially take care of canceled reservations!

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Where do you work? I am excited to potentially take care of canceled reservations!

I'd rather not say, but it's easy to figure out if you're aware of where I live.

It's tough right now for everyone in my industry. Top restauranteurs here had a meeting a few days ago to try and get ahead of it but I'm not sure what will come of it

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I won't be able to do my job from home but my hope is that if we have to close for a couple weeks, proper compensation will take place. I can't know for sure though. It's very up in the air and the communication at my company is fairly poor.

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unfortunately we can't deliver mail remotely

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hi that was me (but also Lopen) arguing with foolmo

I'm not being forced to work remotely but I am being forced to ensure I've taken the steps to sufficiently enable remote work in anticipation of it possibly happening at some point <_<

blog incoming...!

(jk)

my company sent me and half my team home for the week. believe there's supposed to be some sort of rotation policy, so i'll be back in the office either next week or the week after, while the other half is going home. something to that effect
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Aecioo posted...

I'd rather not say, but it's easy to figure out if you're aware of where I live.

Where do you live?

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Where do you live?

Atlanta

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Cool, I quite like Atlanta but never really did a fine dining thing there.

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Aecioo posted...

Atlanta

Ooo, you work at a Waffle House.
Those places are great.

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Cool, I quite like Atlanta but never really did a fine dining thing there.

We were awarded best new restaurant in the country a few years ago and have multiple james beard award nominations/wins!

It's a growing food city, and is on the cusp of entering that top tier (New York, Chicago, Miami, LA etc). Coronavirus is really crippling us right now though -(

We had two bars nominated this past year for best bar in the country! They lost though.

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LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

Ooo, you work at a Waffle House.
Those places are great.

if you're not drunk, you're not experiencing waffle house

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I work for a health care system which makes this time extra fun. we've been doing infrastructure planning for a week for how to handle thousands of people working remotely, basically everyone but people involved with direct patient care. we're also trying to stand up about a dozen new clinics on a super short time span (days) so we can redirect covid-19 people there instead of to our usual locations where regular patients go.

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Ohh just got the "cancel all non-essential meetings effective immediately" email

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Yeah my wife was supposed to fly to Atlanta in 2 weeks and that trip just got canceled today.

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Looks like they are deep cleaning the college soon. I will have to work at home soon. Not too sure if that is a permanent thing yet.

We might do the half the office go to the office at a time as well.

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Hey! I'm in Atlanta too!

They haven't officially told us yet, but pretty sure I just taught my last face-to-face class of the semester today. Gonna have us do the rest of the class online. A bunch of us are paranoid that if we do too good a job they'll make more sections online-only next semester.

I work in the travel business. Crippling isn't a strong enough word. I'm working at a loss, because now days are spent cancelling trips and refunding what I can.

This is going to have a lasting effect on travel worldwide. If I were a young adult without any strings, I'd go travel right now. It's dirt cheap, and the chances are thin in the next month to catch the virus. Go live your life.

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I'm going to Paris in July and I am so pissed that I didn't wait to get the tickets. Could probably have booked it for half the price!

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My brother is. All of my work could be done remotely; Ill probably start doing so if I can do it without pissing off my advisor.

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Fortune 100 insurance company - as of today, the entire company has been given permission to WFH full time (optional).

I live in Queens and usually commute to our Manhattan office 2-3 days a week, but have decided to cease that until this all blows over.

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

I'm going to Paris in July and I am so pissed that I didn't wait to get the tickets. Could probably have booked it for half the price!

My friend is going to Japan this Sunday
He said just this Monday that if he were to book the fight now, he would have saved a few hundred dollars.
Talk about last minute savings....I should join him on the trip lol

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yeah the best part of all of this is that Chinese tourists will be banned from major cities

wish it happened the first time around in paris when I actually went to all of the sites

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I kinda wish I had that option. Not like my work requires physical presence most of the time anyway.

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Today got a "this isn't official company policy but feel free to work from home; just talk to your manager first." e-mail from my department head.

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We are being offered the choice if we fall into a high risk group, which I do...so I will.

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Dream job never called me back so I'm still stuck going to school remotely

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My workplace has been slowly but steadily sending broadcasts on telecommuting measures. We already had a two-day telecommute optional policy which they have now increased to heavily encouraged three days, and today they sent out another e-mail saying that those who have children or commute from far away can work from home full-time. It's not a huge deal for us since telecommuting is so common, but I've certainly been wondering how this will impact remote work policies in the future.

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VintageGin posted...

We are being offered the choice if we fall into a high risk group, which I do...so I will.

What constitutes a high risk group?

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My area is starting to get hit by it more and my boss and the other attorney in the office are just going to make less trips into the office. I was told I can work from home but it's easier for me to work from my office so I'll probably just keep coming in.

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Worse. I was fired.

Probably not directly related to the virus but likely related to the economic crash that came with it.

NVM my boss said he isn't coming in for the rest of the week and only two days a week after that. Lol I have the option to work whenever the fuck I want.

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I hope my company offers this. It would trim my 45 minute commute to a 45 second commute.

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