Who works from home?
Discussion
Food manufacturing consultant. Nominally based at home but if you are going to advise people on food manufacturing then you are going to spend a lot of your time, erm, in a food factory. I do occasionally get to do some of the thinking based stuff from the home office.
The advantage is that while I spend a lot of time away (I mean a lot) I get chunks of time off to go away and do interesting stuff.
The advantage is that while I spend a lot of time away (I mean a lot) I get chunks of time off to go away and do interesting stuff.
xjay1337 said:
I work from home 80% of the time.
I work in IT.
These days with VPNs, 2FA and Terminal servers there's absolutely no reason why you can't do any job remotely, really.
The "its not secure" argument is b
ks. Aside from actually storing peoples credit card data on a random PC in your study.
I like working at home as the nature of my job is sometimes it is fairly quiet, other times it is absolutely flat out.
So I have time to do other things while still being available if the need is. Otherwise I am very well behaved and if I have stuff I need to do, it gets done.
I have had days where I've been Working from home and not even had chance to walk to Sainsburys (literally 2 minute walk) and other days I have done nothing but sit in the garden with the dogs.
Swings and roundabouts.
On the tech side I completely agree. But I've yet to find a decent substitute for "can I just show you..." type conversations, and the quick random design session on a whiteboard. I work in IT.
These days with VPNs, 2FA and Terminal servers there's absolutely no reason why you can't do any job remotely, really.
The "its not secure" argument is b
ks. Aside from actually storing peoples credit card data on a random PC in your study.I like working at home as the nature of my job is sometimes it is fairly quiet, other times it is absolutely flat out.
So I have time to do other things while still being available if the need is. Otherwise I am very well behaved and if I have stuff I need to do, it gets done.
I have had days where I've been Working from home and not even had chance to walk to Sainsburys (literally 2 minute walk) and other days I have done nothing but sit in the garden with the dogs.
Swings and roundabouts.
wiggy001 said:
xjay1337 said:
I work from home 80% of the time.
I work in IT.
These days with VPNs, 2FA and Terminal servers there's absolutely no reason why you can't do any job remotely, really.
The "its not secure" argument is bks. Aside from actually storing peoples credit card data on a random PC in your study.
I like working at home as the nature of my job is sometimes it is fairly quiet, other times it is absolutely flat out.
So I have time to do other things while still being available if the need is. Otherwise I am very well behaved and if I have stuff I need to do, it gets done.
I have had days where I've been Working from home and not even had chance to walk to Sainsburys (literally 2 minute walk) and other days I have done nothing but sit in the garden with the dogs.
Swings and roundabouts.
On the tech side I completely agree. But I've yet to find a decent substitute for "can I just show you..." type conversations, and the quick random design session on a whiteboard. I work in IT.
These days with VPNs, 2FA and Terminal servers there's absolutely no reason why you can't do any job remotely, really.
The "its not secure" argument is b
ks. Aside from actually storing peoples credit card data on a random PC in your study.I like working at home as the nature of my job is sometimes it is fairly quiet, other times it is absolutely flat out.
So I have time to do other things while still being available if the need is. Otherwise I am very well behaved and if I have stuff I need to do, it gets done.
I have had days where I've been Working from home and not even had chance to walk to Sainsburys (literally 2 minute walk) and other days I have done nothing but sit in the garden with the dogs.
Swings and roundabouts.
not the best, but doable.
wiggy001 said:
On the tech side I completely agree. But I've yet to find a decent substitute for "can I just show you..." type conversations, and the quick random design session on a whiteboard.
Yup, that's true. I do understand that.However we can still do that, the other day I showed a colleague how to do something over our Skype for Business screen-share thingy.
Was just as if I was sat next to him.
It depends what kind of business I suppose, if you are a team that constantly bouncing ideas around and jumping into ad-hoc meetings then maybe more office based in better.
To be honest with the dogs and stuff now if I couldn't work from home at least 3 days a week it's simply not a job worth having. (in my industry of support / installation).
If I was a manager I'd probably be in more often. I think that a positive leadership presence is good. My old manager was never in, didn't even bother to say good bye to me when I quit.
xjay1337 said:
However we can still do that, the other day I showed a colleague how to do something over our Skype for Business screen-share thingy.
Was just as if I was sat next to him.
Don't get me wrong, I love working from home and probably do about 60% of the time, all told. However this just isn't true, in any sense at all. We do screen shares, webex, google docs collaboration, the works, and sure it works OK. But it really, genuinely, isn't anything like as good for brainstorming through stuff, or just popping your head over the partition and saying 'Steve, can you take a look at this'. And it absolutely, totally, is not 'just as if I was sat next to him'.Was just as if I was sat next to him.
swerni said:
berlintaxi said:
AB said:
If you're good at sales, work for me on a commission only basis?
Loads of money to be made, you can work from wherever you like and do whatever you want.
What is loads? Is the commission rates capped?Loads of money to be made, you can work from wherever you like and do whatever you want.
One of our guys made £15k last month from a single referral. He happens to meet with the decision makers in our field as they're the same decision makers he deals with on something different.
deckster said:
xjay1337 said:
However we can still do that, the other day I showed a colleague how to do something over our Skype for Business screen-share thingy.
Was just as if I was sat next to him.
Don't get me wrong, I love working from home and probably do about 60% of the time, all told. However this just isn't true, in any sense at all. We do screen shares, webex, google docs collaboration, the works, and sure it works OK. But it really, genuinely, isn't anything like as good for brainstorming through stuff, or just popping your head over the partition and saying 'Steve, can you take a look at this'. And it absolutely, totally, is not 'just as if I was sat next to him'.Was just as if I was sat next to him.
And let's face it, we all get fed up with "that guy" who constantly asks dumb questions
feef said:
As someone who generally does a couple of days a week from home, I was going to point out this hazard of such arrangements 
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