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Working from Home

Boomernichols — Fri, 22 May 2020 20:43:17 GMT

For now, I am content with working at home and staying safe. My commute is short and the kitchen is always open. I am inside so much the dog has started to safe-distance from me.

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Love to read — Fri, 22 May 2020 20:45:30 GMT

After working from home for 8 weeks, I went back to the office this past Monday. I didn't mind working remotely but it is great to be back with my team again!

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Love my grandkids — Fri, 22 May 2020 20:51:44 GMT

@Boomernichols Your comment about your dog made me LOL! Thanks!

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Boomernichols — Fri, 22 May 2020 20:56:10 GMT

@Love my grandkids I will pass on to Toby that someone else appreciates my humor and shenanigans.

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Tadaki — Fri, 22 May 2020 21:05:11 GMT

I'm doing very well at home now too. It was hard at first with getting everything set up. Then being inside seemed to make me bobble-headed. I started going out for a walk at lunch every day that the weather allowed. That really helped. And we have a weekly department meeting where I see and talk to everyone virtually. So all is good.

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mac116 — Fri, 22 May 2020 22:19:32 GMT

My husband was VERY reluctant to work from home. For the first week or two, he was going in 1-2 days for something or other. When he finally set up a cozy home office, he began to love working from home. Now he doesn't want to go back to his commute and the office drama. He is of retirement age, and may just go that route if he has to go back to working at the office.

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queendiva — Fri, 22 May 2020 23:35:56 GMT

My dog is having no part of social distancing. Quite the opposite.

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Deree — Fri, 22 May 2020 23:49:37 GMT

@queendiva wrote:
My dog is having no part of social distancing. Quite the opposite.

Same here @queendiva. He is GLUED to me. I've never seen him like this. He follows me around from room to room. There's not a time I get up from the couch that he doesn't immediately get up. There was a segment on the news about this. That pets will develop a dependency because we're home so much and when such a time comes that we're back to our usual routine of going out more, there may be issues.

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queendiva — Fri, 22 May 2020 23:56:00 GMT

@Deree : The only time he lets me out of his sight is in the morning. He knows there is no couch in the kitchen, LOL! He is lazy and has no need to get up off the bed until hours after I am up.

I try to make a habit of going out at least once a day so he will not become too dependent. I am sure that once he hears the garage door open he moves from the couch back to the bed. Tough life, but he deserves all the pampering he gets.

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willdob3 — Sat, 23 May 2020 17:32:53 GMT

@Boomernichols I’ve been working from home and enjoying it but I have been asked to go back to the office on Tuesday. Almost everyone else was back in the office full time on Monday.

I’m really going to miss the convenience of working from home. It has been nice being able to put dinner on to cook on my break and being home to receive a delivery of food or some other thing ordered online. It has also been low stress working from home.

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Boomernichols — Sat, 23 May 2020 17:36:11 GMT

@willdob3 There are for sure advantages from working at home. Most people are literally drawing more in unemployment staying home than they are working full time and driving to and fro.

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peace6576 — Sat, 23 May 2020 21:35:58 GMT

People working from home are not getting unemployment. We are not unemployed just working virtually, hence the words working from home. 🙄

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VaBelle35 — Sun, 24 May 2020 01:28:15 GMT

I've worked from home a lot, although not much the last 2 years. I am enjoying not have enjoyed not having to go into the office.

I have some things I need to do in the office now, so I've gone in 3 times. We are to continuing working from home for the foreseeable future, there is no expectation for people to go back to the office any time soon.

Fine by me.

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CelticCrafter — Sun, 24 May 2020 16:35:25 GMT

All my son-in-law has to say to one of the dogs is, time to go to work now - she will pick out a toy and follow him into the office with it!

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San Antonio Gal — Sun, 24 May 2020 17:10:54 GMT

@Boomernichols wrote:
@willdob3 There are for sure advantages from working at home. Most people are literally drawing more in unemployment staying home than they are working full time and driving to and fro.

@Boomernichols - Working from home folks don't draw unemployment. We are WORKING remotely - not unemployed.

Unemployed people are drawing unemployment. Quite different from working-from-home.

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willdob3 — Sun, 24 May 2020 17:15:55 GMT

@VaBelle35 wrote:
I've worked from home a lot, although not much the last 2 years. I am enjoying not have enjoyed not having to go into the office.

I have some things I need to do in the office now, so I've gone in 3 times. We are to continuing working from home for the foreseeable future, there is no expectation for people to go back to the office any time soon.

Fine by me.

@VaBelle35 I was really hoping to be told to continue working from home for now, too. There is no reason not to. But they want everyone back in the office anyway. With what might happen in the coming months, I question the wisdom of that decision.

It will be easy to start from home again if needed. Then again, things really have not improved now; the decision to go back to the office is more along the country-wide feeling that people are tired of dealing with the virus and want to get back to “normal.”

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SurferWife — Sun, 24 May 2020 18:42:12 GMT

I've been working full-time from home for about five years now, so not much has changed for me during this pandemic. Most employees from my company are now working from home, and many are chomping at the bit to go back to the office. Me? No way! The benefits of working at home far outweigh the benefits of working in the office. I save three hours of commute time per day, wear & tear from the daily commute on my Detroit muscle, as well as monthly parking fee. I've informed my boss on several occasions that for me working from home is like a marriage, till death us do part.

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SurferWife — Sun, 24 May 2020 18:46:07 GMT

@San Antonio Gal wrote:
@Boomernichols wrote:
@willdob3 There are for sure advantages from working at home. Most people are literally drawing more in unemployment staying home than they are working full time and driving to and fro.
@Boomernichols - Working from home folks don't draw unemployment. We are WORKING remotely - not unemployed.

Unemployed people are drawing unemployment. Quite different from working-from-home.

@San Antonio Gal

No kidding! I don't quite understand how someone can equate working from home with being unemployed at home. Working from home, having an office in the home, is quite normal, regardless of this pandemic.

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VaBelle35 — Mon, 25 May 2020 17:55:44 GMT

@willdob3 wrote:
@VaBelle35 wrote:
I've worked from home a lot, although not much the last 2 years. I am enjoying not have enjoyed not having to go into the office.

I have some things I need to do in the office now, so I've gone in 3 times. We are to continuing working from home for the foreseeable future, there is no expectation for people to go back to the office any time soon.

Fine by me.
@VaBelle35 I was really hoping to be told to continue working from home for now, too. There is no reason not to. But they want everyone back in the office anyway. With what might happen in the coming months, I question the wisdom of that decision.

It will be easy to start from home again if needed. Then again, things really have not improved now; the decision to go back to the office is more along the country-wide feeling that people are tired of dealing with the virus and want to get back to “normal.”

Hopefully your place will allow some flexibility for people who would prefer to stay home.

I didn't think I was anxious about going back but a few weeks ago when the mood turned to "how do we open back up," my company put out a communication shutting all the talk down.

My first move was to order more workout clothes from Target ;o)

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VaBelle35 — Mon, 25 May 2020 18:03:10 GMT

My company has always had the ability for some jobs that are work from home eligible, either as an official 100% telecommuter, occasional based on weather or having something you need to be at home for or casual based on workload and in person meetings.

For years, I've talked to people who absolutely cannot work from home. They need to be around people, they thrive in a busy office.

I work best going into the office maybe one day a week/every 10 days. I find if I stay out for 2 weeks or more that re-entry is tough and I put off going in and have to force myself to go in. And then I have to allot for time for chatting with people and catch up on gossip and other department news.

I work best over a 12 hour period where I can stop and take break and get back at it.

My days are not set, but an ideal day is to start a 6, take care of the West Coast stuff from the previous day, have my morning coffee and watch CNBC and then get back at it until 3 or 4. I like to take a tea break and watch Hot Bench and then get back at it for a couple of hours.

Most days, if I open my email before 9 am I am drinking my morning coffee at 1 and having lunch at 6.