Dustin Kirkland has written a blog post about telecommuting for over two decades. He goes into a lot of detail about his particular setup. He closes asking what other people's remote offices look like and what, if anything, he missed.
In this post, I'm going to share a few of the benefits and best practices that I've discovered over the years, and I'll share with you a shopping list of hardware and products that I have come to love or depend on, over the years.
I worked in a variety of different roles -- software engineer, engineering manager, product manager, and executive (CTO, VP Product, Chief Product Officer) -- and with a couple of differet companies, big and small (IBM, Google, Canonical, Gazzang, and Apex). In fact, I was one of IBM's early work-from-home interns, as a college student in 2000, when my summer internship manager allowed me to continue working when I went back to campus, and I used the ATT Global Network dial-up VPN client to "upload" my code to IBM's servers.
If there's anything positive to be gained out of the COVID-19 virus life changes, I hope that working from home will become much more widely accepted and broadly practiced around the world, in jobs and industries where it's possible. Moreover, I hope that other jobs and industries will get even more creative and flexible with remote work arrangements, while maintaining work-life-balance, corporate security, and employee productivity.
See similar article at the BBC.
How much, if any, can you work from home? What tools are on your "gotta have it" list? What cautions, suggestions, and resources do you suggest for your fellow Soylentils?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @05:03PM (7 children)
My wife is ok with it, it's the girlfriend that gets in the way.
(Score: 5, Funny) by hendrikboom on Tuesday March 10 2020, @05:54PM (4 children)
It is so convenient when your wife and your girlfriend are the same person.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday March 10 2020, @06:59PM (3 children)
Even moreso when they are both imaginary.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @09:56PM (2 children)
are pixels imaginary?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @07:06AM
2D wife
See also; waifu
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @03:10PM
Try voxels. Holo-waifu.
(Score: 3, Informative) by driverless on Tuesday March 10 2020, @08:10PM
But it's convenient that way, wife at home thinks you're with your girlfriend, girlfriend at work thinks you're with your wife, and you can be offsite engineering a GaN charger to put on Kickstarter when it's done.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @04:55AM
That's because you haven't achieved his level yet. He has multiple wives and multiple girlfriends. What concerns me are the children.