How do you work from home?

[temery]

Just curious. I spoke with a neighbor yesterday and he said his employer installed software that tracks mouse clicks. If he doesn't click the mouse at least every four minutes, he'll get a call or email.

Nothing about productivity, just mouse clicks.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Just curious. I spoke with a neighbor yesterday and he said his employer installed software that tracks mouse clicks. If he doesn't click the mouse at least every four minutes, he'll get a call or email.

Nothing about productivity, just mouse clicks.

The Simpsons resolved this issue decades ago.

 

[Jaker]

LOL

 

[businesslawyer]

We don’t try to monitor lawyers when they’re not in the office, no more than we really do when they’re in it. Get your work done by the time it has to be done, and get it done right. Because if you don’t, I could care less whether you click something on the system every four minutes.

 

[Deleted at users request]

Just curious. I spoke with a neighbor yesterday and he said his employer installed software that tracks mouse clicks. If he doesn't click the mouse at least every four minutes, he'll get a call or email.

Nothing about productivity, just mouse clicks.

Funny usually people have teams so you can see when someone is online. Dated someone who’s mom had a mouse that spun automatically to keep her laptop active as she did stuff around the house/ran errands.

Your neighbor is going to have to find something for mouse clicks.

 

[B1GEast]

I'm sure they monitor my laptop, but for my role, I'm not tied to it.

I get my work done, if I'm not active, no big deal.

I wouldn't do remote work if I had to be constantly worried about being active on my system.

I love remote work. I couldn't imagine having to get up early to commute to an office and deal with all that corporate stuff when I can meet with people remotely to do the same thing. Kudos to people that would rather be in an office, that's not me.

 

[Jaker]

I have not worked in an office in years and have not missed it one bit.

 

[Jaydumo20]

The road is my lady

 

[Woodson]

Just curious. I spoke with a neighbor yesterday and he said his employer installed software that tracks mouse clicks. If he doesn't click the mouse at least every four minutes, he'll get a call or email.

Nothing about productivity, just mouse clicks.

I’ve been asking myself this for 4 years. Granted I’ve lived in apartments and south Florida hotels during most of that time, I have an office job

 

[navery12]

I'm far less productive when I have to go into the office, and that's strictly actual work stuff. That doesn't even get into all the other productivity benefits.

I'm getting the sense that me being remote is going to change soon, and then it'll be time for a new job. I'm close enough to office where they can reasonably ask me to commute, but with traffic that's 3 hours a day and I'm not doing that

 

[HooperScooper]

Just curious. I spoke with a neighbor yesterday and he said his employer installed software that tracks mouse clicks. If he doesn't click the mouse at least every four minutes, he'll get a call or email.

Nothing about productivity, just mouse clicks.

So being on the Boneyard all day counts as work? Phew.

 

[temery]

So being on the Boneyard all day counts as work? Phew.

Unique users here increases every year, but since Covid traffic is down about 40%. Used to be people got to work, logged into the 'yard at 9 am, then off at 5pm, with dozens of visits all day. With more and more people working from home, they visit less.

All y'all need to get yur asses back to work!

 

[OceanDoggie]

I work like normal. The only difference for me is that I can't use public WiFi, like at a coffee house or on a plane. I need to Hotspot the work phone if not home or the office. This is basically because of the type of data/information.

 

[NCHuskie919]

I invite them over for a movie or something like that, eventually transition to the bed, work, sweat on them profusely, send them home.

 

[QuickDraw]

All y'all need to get yur asses back to work!

 

[cohenzone]

I’ve been not working from home for a few decades. Retirement is a great way to work from home.

Seriously, as a former manager and supervisor, before telecommuting was a common thing one of the great benefits of an office environment was that it lent itself to informal brain picking and collegiality (ok, the occasional fist fight). That has to disappear to a large degree in telework. yes or no? Is there any such thing any more as the office softball or card leagues? BTW, i retired when we moved from a 15 minute commute to a 45 minute commute ti be closer to my wife’s new job. I was spoiled and hated it. Now I get to spend every waking or sleepless moment on the BY

When we first started telework just before i retired, our only rule was getting work done on time and correctly.

 

[Mr. French]

I work a somewhat unique schedule and all remote, so I’m on the ‘yard during the day a lot.

Our company has ways to track our productivity, but not with clicks. That wouldn’t even matter for this particular job.

I haven’t been in an office since 2017, so I’m firmly entrenched and have 2 young kids so it makes things much easier overall, but maybe less “me” time unless I create that.

 

[Deepster]

Unique users here increases every year, but since Covid traffic is down about 40%. Used to be people got to work, logged into the 'yard at 9 am, then off at 5pm, with dozens of visits all day. With more and more people working from home, they visit less.

All y'all need to get yur asses back to work!

That’s interesting. I’ve been fully remote since March 2020 and I can see that. When I was “trapped” at my desk it was a reprieve. At home, I can do anything I want as a break.

 

[husky429]

I don't know what she does all day, but my wife only went in 54 days a year. The days I come home and she's in the same sweatpants she slept in, I've never been closer to divorce.

 

[Mr. French]

I don't know what she does all day, but my wife only went in 54 days a year. The days I come home and she's in the same sweatpants she slept in, I've never been closer to divorce.

I haven’t worn a thing but joggers or bball shorts and athletic t-shirts in 7 years, other than my wedding (under protest).

 

[JMick]

I'm sure we get tracked in some regards but I've run out to the grocery store or gas station during "work hours" plenty of times to pick things up quick and I've never had my boss or anyone else say anything. The only rule they really have is that if you're on a teams call, you have to have your video up. No voice-only. I'm not sure why this is a rule but I think it's just to make sure people are paying attention. Some people do watch the activity indicator on teams but it's really dumb because if you're just reading something or looking over data it'll show you as "inactive"

I'm hybrid and I don't mind going into the office since my commute is only about 30 minutes. I get a lot more people bothering me to fix things when I'm in the office, though, and it can get annoying.

 

[B1GEast]

 

[HCCForever]

I've been 100% remote worker since I moved to Florida in 2019. I love it. For the majority of the time, I used a company provided PC which limited access to some things and could easily be used to monitor my activity.

For the past three months, I have been a contractor using my own PC to logon to their system via Citrix. I am sure that they could monitor me there as well. I sometimes rush off to the grocery store or take a short nap at lunch time and I have never been questioned about my mouse clicks. When I want to visit The Boneyard I just use my iPhone throughout the day.

 

[Hunt for 7]

I have worked remote since moving to Florida in 2010. I did travel frequently before Covid enough to rack up 2 million miles on AA. But since Covid not traveling as much. I have often wondered what it would be like to work in an office again. Some of the posts in this thread are on point. I think productivity can be maintained but I also believe creativity and problem solving is more effective when you are working live and together with your team on a daily basis in an office.

I think this is even more critical if your company is new and starting to find its niche. I can’t imagine how we would have grown our first company without working in person. And yes there were arguments and then one employee punched another kept his job and we all then operated under the one punch rule. He set the precedent so we all felt we had one punch and could keep our job. The hard part was deciding if or when to use it. It was like a genie bottle with one wish.

Unfortunately I never used the punch and then we got bought by a bigger company and the rule was eliminated. Not that it was in our employee handbook but we assumed that was one of the things that would not be grandfathered in like seniority and vacation time.

 

[HCCForever]

Seriously, as a former manager and supervisor, before telecommuting was a common thing one of the great benefits of an office environment was that it lent itself to informal brain picking and collegiality (ok, the occasional fist fight). That has to disappear to a large degree in telework. yes or no? Is there any such thing any more as the office softball or card leagues?

I'm so glad that my time spent in corporate America began in the 80s. I was in all types of sports leagues for softball, volleyball, bowling, etc. I'm sure participation in those have taken a hit due to the move to offshore and remote work but I aged out. Moving to remote work was a no brainer since I was working with people from India, CO and TN anyways. We rarely saw each other except for quarterly meetings that they discontinued when COVID hit.