Is everyone on here back to work
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(Raises Hand) I don’t want to be that guy but I never left work thankfully. They did reduce our salary while dealing with the “Covid Crisis” at the hospital because we had so few patients.
My office isn't going back to in-office work until after the July 4 holiday. And that's contingent on the daycares in our area opening back up. If they stay closed, it's likely we'll re-evaluate.
Basically, until the daycares are back open, it's mainly work from home.
Basically, until the daycares are back open, it's mainly work from home.
We can work from home or come to office. Our choice. We've implemented a much more relaxed policy regarding in-office attendance that we are going to continue from now on. Basically, COVID gave us a good test run in teleworking and proved that we can remain as productive and profitable.
I expect more of this. I expect one ripple effect to be commercial real estate taking a beating.
ETA: not immediately, but moving forward as contracts expire, I expect them not to be renewed for the same amount of space.
ETA: not immediately, but moving forward as contracts expire, I expect them not to be renewed for the same amount of space.
Are you in sales? I don't see people being nearly as productive at home unless they are in sales(paid on commission) or their pay is tied to work productivity.
Some jobs can be work form home 100%, but many can not. I am a healthcare executive and not many of our staff can work form home, if it all.
September is the first of a 3 phased back to the office approach running through December for the entire workforce to be back in the office.
The exact opposite, actually. Consulting and salary-based (with some performance incentives). I think the sweet-spot for my position is WFH approx. 40-50% of the time.... so about 2 days a week would be perfect balance. Could work 100% remotely, if needed, but being in the office allows me to tie together loose ends, so it needs to be done every now and again. On the flip side, one of my subordinates, with same workload and workflow, has been at home since March 18th and has been running at approximately 80-90% productivity, which is about the same for the entire company. Our drop in productivity has been totally tied to the general COVID effect much more than inability to WFH. We've seen things ramp back up the past week or two, so I would not be surprised if everyone is running close to 100% now. I know I am.
Nope. I’m outside sales so we are still can’t see clients unless our clients permit it. But we still can’t make any overnight travel. So mostly still at home. Wife is a vet so she has continued to work.
Yes - work for a manufacturing company. Office people worked from home for 3 weeks during the state shutdown but most have been back since then. A few stayed out 2-3 more weeks, and some that are near retirement still work from home ~50% of the time.
Our manufacturing people never stopped. They were allowed to take time off if they wanted to - some did. But I think almost everyone is back now. We've only had 1 positive case that I know of (out of ~250 workforce).
Our manufacturing people never stopped. They were allowed to take time off if they wanted to - some did. But I think almost everyone is back now. We've only had 1 positive case that I know of (out of ~250 workforce).
It's funny. Most posters here are saying they're as productive working from home (and I know that some studies back that up), but virtually everyone I've talked to who's tried it says the opposite. Personally, I can't imagine I'd be anywhere near as productive working from home.
I think its confirmed how much wasted time there was in many offices to begin with. I do get just as much done at home...and have had time to help my kids with lessons and learning when needed thru each day plus accomplishing a random house task like laundry or whatever each day.
Obviously jobs are different and experiences vary.
I think this is the answer, and like most things in life, reality is in the middle.
No, still in limbo. I'm a college professor, there's the "official line" about reopening, and then there's the massive set of complications that are the reality of trying to start up the fall semester. Probably similar to those of you who are at large offices where there's a range of people with different degrees of risk, a range of disabilities and needs you are trying to accommodate, varying degrees of compliance with social distancing and other protective measures across the workforce, etc. Now imagine you all were going to live together in shared hotel rooms across the street for the next couple of months, and you know that your roommates wash their hands about once every other day on average.
I'm in commercial construction. Commercial RE and construction are going to be a problem. Every project that has started will finish if the developer doesn't go belly up. Others that are funded will be on a case by case basis. New stuff is on hold. I sell 1-3 projects a year. I bid 15-20 a year through a couple of GC's. Mainly hotel and light retail. Some schools in the past.... My guys say we will know more in September, but nothing going on for now. The only call I have had was from one of my GC's in Texas that is bidding a data center. Not my lane.
My last project wraps in July and I will pay myself through the end of the year, but I have zero work to bid, which makes 2021 a zero income year if I can't get some projects bid pretty soon. I'm not complaining, I have plenty of time to figure out my options. Most likely going to be buying up residential foreclosures and fixing/renting/selling for a couple of years. Yuck.
Just went back in today (mandatory). Everyone's set up on our sprawling, cafeteria-style desk aisle is set up with an empty seat bw us. The mgmt pushed facemasks in emails and video conferences prior, but not strictly enforcing in office.
They told us a few weeks ago we'd be going back on June 15, then a week later sped it up to June 8 and here we are!
Work for a 3rd Party Logistics firm
They told us a few weeks ago we'd be going back on June 15, then a week later sped it up to June 8 and here we are!
Work for a 3rd Party Logistics firm
We are back, never were completely out, but it's anything but normal. State mandated not normal.
I'm retired, so no, not back at work. I guess I'm working from home ....
But based on traffic levels, many are back. I think the Army is phasing back in at Redstone, but I've not heard for sure. They were down to about 30% of normal at one time, presumably because they had classified work to do and you can't do that at home. NASA was totally shut, except for essentials like security and Space Station Control. Not sure if NASA and contractors are back to work or not.
But based on traffic levels, many are back. I think the Army is phasing back in at Redstone, but I've not heard for sure. They were down to about 30% of normal at one time, presumably because they had classified work to do and you can't do that at home. NASA was totally shut, except for essentials like security and Space Station Control. Not sure if NASA and contractors are back to work or not.
This was my experience as well. If anything, I've been more productive working about 25-30 hours a week at home than I was working 40 a week in the office. And that's with my wife and I switching out watching our young kids so the other can work.
Working from home allowed me to focus on the important tasks and ignore what was essentially busy-work (side benefit was that it helped my boss see that some of what we are assigned is essentially a waste of time that doesn't move the needle for our organization). I also didn't have to deal with the random interruptions from co-workers who used to come to my office because they "just had a quick question" which made it easier to get things done. They now send an email that I can answer whenever.
Neither the wife nor I missed a single day. We had gone to costco in february before the first reported case and probably could've not left the house for 5 months if necessary, but as it was we have probably had six days since March where we both didnt leave the house.
Hand raised. Kinda. Had to miss 1 day at the beginning and 3 days last week due to potential exposures. Other than that, wide open.
Lowes and Depot are main customers. Our normal is four 10's. It's been 5 or 6 days a week 10 hrs each since this started. We may finally be slowing some with everyone else getting back to work. This MAY be my 2nd weekend in 3 months not to work any extra days.
Lowes and Depot are main customers. Our normal is four 10's. It's been 5 or 6 days a week 10 hrs each since this started. We may finally be slowing some with everyone else getting back to work. This MAY be my 2nd weekend in 3 months not to work any extra days.
I’m no more or less productive, I don’t think. Rather, I’d say I’m slightly more efficient at home. Silly meetings, coffee pot rambling, and constantly redirecting my attention to put out fires in the office keep me more distracted at work it seems.
But then again, Missus J-Dawg works healthcare so she’s not at home bothering me, and the kid has been at daycare half the time.
I work in development for a large corporation. Everyone is salaried and we haven’t missed a day. I am much more productive at home without Marketing interrupting every 20 minutes. Virtually everyone else in our area is the same. Only thing is I am working more now. Hard to turn it off now that I can’t separate the home from work with the office out of the mix.
We have no eta on returning to the office, but things will have changed by then. More work from home flexibility and possibly a modified work week.
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