working from home?

big soft moose said:
I suspect genuine IT issues might also be a problem , our VPN is so slow ive virtually stopped using it when working from home (we have a webmail option as well)
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it shouldnt be any slower than the weakest link (normally my upload speed) in theory.

tijuana taxi said:
Work is where many people meet their psycho ex's to be
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FYP
 
I suspect the weakest link is our crap IT ( I mean seriously I'm still on Windows XP and IE8 ... Ive got a W7 capable laptop thats been reloaded with an operating system MS no longer support ... go figure)
 
big soft moose said:
I suspect the weakest link is our crap IT ( I mean seriously I'm still on Windows XP and IE8 ... Ive got a W7 capable laptop thats been reloaded with an operating system MS no longer support ... go figure)
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i couldnt honestly comment on what your lot use, but we still have some legacy apps here that require old OS and IE versions. fortunately that is now limited to a few key users.
 
neil_g said:
i couldnt honestly comment on what your lot use, but we still have some legacy apps here that require old OS and IE versions. fortunately that is now limited to a few key users.
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I use a CNC drill/router which has a CP/M processor in its controller connected up to a PC running Windows NT connected to our server. The PC has to emulate a paper tape reader in order to communicate with the CNC!

I keep the controller powered up as it has to boot up on 5.25" discs and it's getting a bit cranky.


Steve.
 
neil_g said:
i couldnt honestly comment on what your lot use, but we still have some legacy apps here that require old OS and IE versions. fortunately that is now limited to a few key users.
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we are in the middle of updating to W7 - (the target date for completion was august... theres still about 33% of the machines to go)
 
neil_g said:
just to clarify my point..



your laptop blue screens and upon rebooting your NT loader is corrupt, that's at least a day down the tubes. whereas in the office it would get immediate attention and if necessary a replacement/space machine.
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I can get in my car and go into the office. I give my laptop to IT and then work on the spare desktop PC. I've been working from home for 3 years btw and this has never happened.


Oh, and "it would get immediate attention"? Not where I work! :LOL:
 
And just to add to the mix if you use encryption that can cause further delays - that has to go back to IT.
 
fabs said:
I can get in my car and go into the office. I give my laptop to IT and then work on the spare desktop PC. I've been working from home for 3 years btw and this has never happened.


Oh, and "it would get immediate attention"? Not where I work! :LOL:
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3 year old laptop ? - time to upgrade !
 
fabs said:
I can get in my car and go into the office. I give my laptop to IT and then work on the spare desktop PC. I've been working from home for 3 years btw and this has never happened.
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fair enough, that would be a 3 hour public transport round trip for me :D

Oh, and "it would get immediate attention"? Not where I work! :LOL:
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within 20 mins top would be my aim on a "machine down" (other urgent work dependent)
 
neil_g said:
fair enough, that would be a 3 hour public transport round trip for me :D



within 20 mins top would be my aim on a "machine down" (other urgent work dependent)
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If I was to hand my laptop to IT in the morning, I'd feel privileged if it came back to me the same day!
 
Lynton said:
I remember "working from home" once (many years ago) in a previous job"... well Friday afternoon sitting on the patio with a cold beer...

work mobile with me and work laptop logged in , on a conference call......

what I was not expecting was 8, yes 8, RAF Tornado's to come screaming overhead, quite low and very fast.. and therefore very noisy....

People were "what the hell was that?" I took the easy option of joining in with the "what the hell was that comment"
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Lol I've got that with Elephants trumpeting and the Lions roar. Cracks me up every time with people who do not know where I live.
 
Self employed and working from home for ten years. Love it!

Apart from last week when I had to go to Vegas. Bummer, someone has to.
 
new2me said:
what would happen to the industries and the employees that rely on servicing those office workers - transport workers, cafes, restaurants, bars, beggars .... ?
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More parcels being delivered to my home, more regional distributions centres, more coffee pods delivered to my house instead of served in the shop and so on. It will still be required just in a different way. And I haven't even started about the technology support area.
 
neil_g said:
because who'd REALLY do 8 hours work if they were at home?
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:( Sadly me.

I tend to wfh once a week and actually put in a longer day.
Up at the usual time, log in at the time I usually leave home, log off when I'd usually arrive home . . . but far more productive than spending that time sat in traffic.
 
I'm the same as SarahLee I tend to work longer days when I WFH but it means I can do shorter days in the office through the week as we promote smart working so as long as staff do the contracted hours each week and there no business demand for you to be on site at a certain time then you can work whenever (within reason obviously) it's been a good boost on staff moral since it been introduced as as a team manager I need to monitor it and no one taken the p*** with it yet and are all fairly sensible with it
 
2blue4u said:
Self employed and working from home for ten years. Love it!

Apart from last week when I had to go to Vegas. Bummer, someone has to.
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Yeah i' getting on to 10 years too. Great init!
 
fabs said:
Oh, and "it would get immediate attention"? Not where I work!
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Or me. The UK company I work for is owned by a US based company which is owned by a giant Chinese company with factories and offices around the world.
Their IT headquarters is in Switzerland.
If I have a problem, instead of walking 100 yards to see our only IT person on site, I have to lodge a complaint by e-mail with the Switzerland office who will then decide who the right person would be to help me out. They then e-mail our IT guy and he comes over to see what he can do!


Steve.
 
I use apple care pro. Just walk past the queue and are next inline at any Apple Store in the world and get seen immediately. Last time I had to use it they just swapped it out, gave me a destruction certificate and I restored my back up. It is brilliant. Corporate image is via VMware pc over Ethernet anyway, so job is a good one :) productive within a couple of hours.
 
SarahLee said:
Ditto !!!
Even the same week would be good.
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a colleague has been waiting for his laptop to be fixed since April ... he's currently using an even older one that his team found in the back of a cupboard
 
dejongj said:
Lol I've got that with Elephants trumpeting and the Lions roar. Cracks me up every time with people who do not know where I live.
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:lol: knowing roughly where you live, that is truly hilarious!! My biggest problem is the dogs, our house is such that I can't have a closed off office space and you can bet your weeks wages that the minute a client phones, the postman will also call, or a pigeon will dare to land in the back garden, setting off the usual cacophony of doggy guards. I can shut them up, but of course that means excusing myself on the phone for a moment or two. I now have a tactic that if I do get a call, I immediately, during the introductions, put the dogs out in the garden which can be easily done with hand signals and move to the far side of the house, which is where my desk happens to be anyway. ;)
 
You need a garden office
 
I am about to have an operation and my phased return to work will start with a few hours a day sat at home doing work on my laptop. When I had my last operation being able to work from home, as I built myself up stopped me going crazy.
 
I work from home once or twice a week. It works well for me, and saves me 6 hours of traveling into the bargain.

Yes, sometimes it takes 10 minutes, instead of 5 to open a huge great data source, but thats life.

I work more, as I smoke at my desk at home, and obviously can't in the office. I am m ore inclinded to work extra hours, as I don't have to face an even longer trip home if I do that in the office, due to extra traffic.

Do I care that a few over priced mud vendors, aka coffee retailers suffer? No. They should be closed down anyway, they are a rip off. A cup of instant coffee tastes the same and costs about 10 p to make, not at minimum £1.80. It also means I wouldn't have to listen to ignorant Yank wannabes saying, "Oh Ja, can I get...."
 
Some roles are suited to it. I do it periodically 1-2 times a month. I would not like to do it permanently, or have my team do it full-time.
 
Yv said:
I would love a garden office, but as we don't plan on staying here for too many more years, not planning on investing in one atm ;)
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Border control has been alerted... I've told them you've been to Sierra Leone and Liberia.
 
Steve Smith said:
Or me. The UK company I work for is owned by a US based company which is owned by a giant Chinese company with factories and offices around the world.
Their IT headquarters is in Switzerland.
If I have a problem, instead of walking 100 yards to see our only IT person on site, I have to lodge a complaint by e-mail with the Switzerland office who will then decide who the right person would be to help me out. They then e-mail our IT guy and he comes over to see what he can do!


Steve.
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IBM / Lenovo by any chance?! :)
 
dejongj said:
Lol I've got that with Elephants trumpeting and the Lions roar. Cracks me up every time with people who do not know where I live.
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That has given me a new idea, next time, ahem "working" from home and a conference call... load up a load of sound files to one of the iPads! .. Could be hilarious!.. especially if you stay silent and then join in with "WTF was that?"
 
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