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from the all-the-better-to-identify-what-can-be-outsourced? dept.
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: 5, Interesting) by mhajicek on Tuesday March 10 2020, @06:16PM
For those of you who flip bits for a living the barrier to entry is probably a few thousand dollars, maybe up to tens of thousands if you're getting fancy. For me, to do it right, would take about 1/4 million. Might be able to scrape by on $100k, or if I wanted to get fancy I could easily put a million into it. I make Titanium bone plates and surgical devices on a five axis machining center.
Fortunately I now have an eight minute commute and don't interact with very many people on most days.
I feel bad for those whose job it is to interact with dozens or hundreds of people every day.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek