It can be..... pleasant actually. I've been working from home 2 years this month. Company pays for the ISP bill, a tank of gas lasts me a month. I wear sweats and house shoes if I want. Food bill is lower because I'm not eating out constantly. It takes discipline, some people can't do well unsupervised. Some people crave that social interaction each day in the office, some people are fine never seeing another human in the flesh. It does make me get out the house more, I go for walks morning noon and night now. It helps to have a window seat too. Just remember, life is what you make it!

I'm an electrician specializing in. Home/retail/office space doing repairs, small projects, and installs. What is the best way to work from home?

I start 7 nights straight tomorrow.

My partner has had to deal with the front end of this crap, working the last 7 nights as I lazed about.

There's some mind-numbing stupidity going on on all fronts...I'm not looking forward to this week. But I am thankful to have a job. I just hope I don't bring anything home to the family.

Nope, I've been told to not work from home. But I'm still getting paid at least.

Our entire company (a large health insurance and IT company) has been ordered to work from home. Due to lack of VPN bandwidth, we are connecting to the network in shifts. Shift 1: 8am-6pm. Shift 2: 6pm-8am. Yeah, I got shift 2. So I'm trying to break up my day to work 4am-8am and 6pm-10pm. Kinda sucks sleep-wise, but just gotta make the best of it.

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
If anyone needs any help/assistance about setting up a home office for working remote, send me a note. I've had 'remote' jobs most of my career.

Now that I think about it, so have probably plenty of folks on this board. Post up your questions/concerns here...we'll get you through!

My employer had the good sense to start me telecommuting in 1992. That meant getting me a 28.8 BAUD modem.

With the exception of a three year stint in the Pentagon and a year-long assignment with DHS I've done it since.

That meant establishing teleworking policies for three of my employers.

I am more than happy to talk with members who need assistance for themselves or their company.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Can you help me set up a means to conduct investigations and make arrests while sitting on my couch in my boxers, streaming The Expanse, and sipping Irish whiskey?

Maybe some sort of automated appointment system, where I notify bad guys by email that they need to report to the local detention center at a specified time and place?

You've just described working economic crimes. Come to the dark side, brother.

A bank just uploaded several thousand pages of account records to their "drop box" for me in response to a subpoena. No need to collect them or scan them. The rest of my week is set.

As long as my agency's IT infrastructure stays up, NCIC/NLETS stays online, and FinCEN keeps working, I'm good to go.

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Originally posted by SIG4EVA:
I finally got the word yesterday that we should. I work in sales for a manufacturer and all of our customers are limiting entry to employees anyway so I couldn't do anything.

I'm in outside sales and we started getting told by customers last week that their offices were employees only. Monday my company made the decision to suspend face to face calls for at least 2 weeks.

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Originally posted by DennisM:
You've just described working economic crimes. Come to the dark side, brother.

Yeah, but I don't look good in reading glasses and a pocket protector.

It's much easier to WFH as a software developer. Actually it's pretty nice.

I did see a cartoon while sitting in the airport a couple of days ago. The pic is the filled passenger section of an airliner, the caption reads something like "welcome ladies and gentlemen to flight xxx, this is your captain, I am working from home today".

Today is my second day of working from home, it's ok but so far I think would rather go into the office, but that won't happen for a few weeks.

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Originally posted by Sig2340:
My employer had the good sense to start me telecommuting in 1992. That meant getting me a 28.8 BAUD modem.

I hope it was Hayes compatible

Nope and were probably going to be as busy as ever.

Folks down on the south side are being told that if they get sick, they should run across and surrender to insure they get treatment quicker.

I work up by the north side. But, when the southwest border gets busy, we get temporarily reassigned. Last year sucked with multiple trips. I caught diseases that havn't seen European blood since Roman times.

Yep, at least three days a week for the next several weeks. I'd rather be in the office, but was told otherwise.

I work for the Texas department of transportation, which as you can imagine employs a lot of people. Every office worker was told to work from home with almost no exceptions. I do construction inspection, so I have to be at work as long as the contractors are still working and of course the highway maintenance guys are still coming in. It's crazy and they are being hard core about enforcing this stuff.

My company announced it this morning. Everyone who is able to do so, will work from home. I already do, so no change in my routine. As a large defense contractor, this will be interesting. Lots of our government customers have already modified their work activities. The biggest problem I see is that not everyone has a company laptop, VPN credentials, etc. That stuff doesn't happen overnight either.

yep day three, need a Herman miller chair for the house.

HK Ag

more than half of my company already works remotely so we were dealing with some people at one of our four offices that didn't

in two cases we have people that have no internet at home so they're allowed to work in the office as they will be the only one there

I have the capability but the technology does limit my effectiveness. We are still open as of now and about half of our 20 people are in the office.