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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: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday March 11 2020, @03:04PM
> Many females just can't grasp having a man around not doing as she orders.
This is my own experience with my wife. When we're both home, it's often a honey-do every few minutes. I almost never ask anything of her. I tested this one evening by trying to play a 3 minute time limited game over and over. In the space of an hour, I was able to finish only one. Every other game I had to abandon so I could attend to yet another honey-do.
My parents, in contrast, did their own things. Dad would spend his time in the garage, and Mom would do housekeeping stuff. She wanted him to help her more, but somehow, there was always automobile maintenance that had to be done. As for me, Dad took a lot more of my time than Mom ever did, to help with the car repairs. A very few times, when I wasn't available, he got her to help him with car repairs. That was only for things that couldn't be done by one person.