Cookies Galore
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Post by Cookies Galore on Oct 1, 2019 8:25:54 GMT -5
While the convenience of working from home appeals to me, I abhor the mixing of home and work life. I NEED to keep them separate. I tend toward the “all or nothing” approach to work. Trying to balance work AND home at home would mean one would lose out. No thanks. What do you mean, I say as I'm working with a bath towel on my head. 🤣🤣
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giramomma
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Post by giramomma on Oct 1, 2019 22:56:29 GMT -5
While the convenience of working from home appeals to me, I abhor the mixing of home and work life. I NEED to keep them separate. I tend toward the “all or nothing” approach to work. Trying to balance work AND home at home would mean one would lose out. No thanks. That's funny. I used to be like that, too, until #4. Plus, now the peanut is upping her activities, and school is getting more demanding for her. Plus my school. And literally, triple the amount of projects at work now. I don't get triple the time to do my work. My project deadlines are still the same.
My life is messy....and I expect it to get messier, still. I don't think I'll ever have a life again, where I'll be able to compartmentalize everything neatly into their appointed slots. It's not worth my time/energy to fight it.
Plus, I can hyper-focus when I really need to. So, it's easy for me to block out a messy home when I've got to push through work and school.
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formerroomate99
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Post by formerroomate99 on Oct 5, 2019 20:15:16 GMT -5
I started my current job working in the office, but then they shut down my office and we all went remote. It worked out well. Everyone seems to love it. But I'm not sure how it would have worked out if we hadn't been together in the office beforehand.
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thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on Oct 5, 2019 20:20:47 GMT -5
Something happened at work, and all of our remote workers knew before most of the office staff. Those people stay connected. LOL.
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bobosensei
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Post by bobosensei on Oct 7, 2019 7:31:17 GMT -5
I can work from home as I want or need, but it hasn't always been this way at this job. My previous position allowed me to work from home only when absolutely necessary or sick, but otherwise expected us to be at the office. Software development collaboration and all that. A couple of people I work with are fully remote. One comes in once a quarter for a meeting and the other is in the office all the time it seems like. Once a month at a minimum and sometimes more depending on projects and deadlines. She told me she'd been on the road 140 days the first 9 months of the year. But she travels to client sites too.
The guy in my position before me just picked two days a week and we always knew he was at home. He'd also come and go at more unusual hours. Like he'd leave the office at 3pm, but get home and work another hour to avoid traffic. I want to do the same but one of the teams I have now is so dysfunctional there are times it is just easier to be there. And the girl that is remote and always in the office I work closely with so if she is in town I try to go in. At work I have gotten better at just leaving the pod of desks, setting my online communication to do not disturb and hiding out in an office on the other side of the building.
I agree with folks saying when you are in the office it is a constant barrage of questions that somehow don't need to be asked when you are away. Makes it terrible to get anything done. Working from home is so much more productive for me and I enjoy not having the commute. But last December they redid the office and we all had to work from home for 6 weeks. It was really boring after the first couple of weeks. So I do like the ability to go in some.
I'm looking for new jobs and everyone always says the flexible work environment is so much better where I currently am, but I'm so frustrated now that I'm willing to do 40 hours a week in the office for more functional coworkers and management.
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raeoflyte
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Post by raeoflyte on Oct 7, 2019 9:41:42 GMT -5
While the convenience of working from home appeals to me, I abhor the mixing of home and work life. I NEED to keep them separate. I tend toward the “all or nothing” approach to work. Trying to balance work AND home at home would mean one would lose out. No thanks. That's funny. I used to be like that, too, until #4. Plus, now the peanut is upping her activities, and school is getting more demanding for her. Plus my school. And literally, triple the amount of projects at work now. I don't get triple the time to do my work. My project deadlines are still the same.
My life is messy....and I expect it to get messier, still. I don't think I'll ever have a life again, where I'll be able to compartmentalize everything neatly into their appointed slots. It's not worth my time/energy to fight it.
Plus, I can hyper-focus when I really need to. So, it's easy for me to block out a messy home when I've got to push through work and school.
I was really worried about that at first. My first wfh position I had to be available for specific hours each day so it was really easy to be on for work, and leave the rest behind. Now I have a lot more flexibility, but I still like to focus my work in my office and it hasn't been difficult to leave the dishes and what not because its time to work. Working in the office full time didn't mean I could leave work at work for me. I brought home more work when I was in the office because of the commute. I had to get home to see the kids, but worked a lot of late nights. Now that commute time can be added to my regular day and in general there are fewer late nights.
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movingforward
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Post by movingforward on Oct 11, 2019 12:44:04 GMT -5
I run my organization and let people work from home "as needed." For example, one employee has two children and if one gets sick I will let her work from home that day.
Personally, I am not a very good work from home person. As the lead in the office I am generally always "on" in that the board will text and email me any time of day; however, answering emails and text is a little different then me sitting down at my computer for hours at home and cranking work out. I don't really work from home too often. I would rather go into the office when dealing with budgets, spreadsheets, etc. Trying to focus on work while I am at home seems challenging for me. There are so many distractions...it tends to go something like this: Oh, it is a nice day outside I need to go for a walk Oh, hello cat. Yes, I love it when you step all over my keyboard and meow into the phone while I am on a conference call Ugh, the dishwasher needs to be emptied The new season of X is on Netflix
Panera sounds really good today. I wonder if such and such wants to meet for lunch Dang, I really need a pedicure and I bet they aren't very busy today... So I don't really work from home. Yes, in the office I am constantly answering questions from staff, having to approve stuff, etc. but that is all part of my job. I have gotten to where I close my door for a couple of hours each day and focus on stuff that needs attention. People will not bother me while the door is closed. I might get swarmed as soon as it opens but that is fine.
I do like to keep as much separation as possible between work and home.
The days I do "work" from home are days when I really have everything caught up and I may need to only do REAL work for about 2 hours. There have been about 3 days this year when that happened and I decided working from home those days might be a good idea. I was able to focus on work for just a couple of hours and the rest of the day was spent doing chores around the house, going to the gym, etc. I would still check emails and text. Honestly, if others in the office are caught up on their work I don't mind if they do this as well. I focus more on productivity than the time a butt is spent in a seat.
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chiver78
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Post by chiver78 on Oct 11, 2019 13:01:32 GMT -5
I am currently WFH 1x/wk officially, although I tend to split my days such that I am in the office in the am, leave in the early afternoon, and log back in once I get home. today, I'm actually WFH. my boss isn't even in the same state, and nothing we are overseeing is happening in our office. so I don't really feel guilty about taking advantage (not maliciously, literally) of the flexibility to be able to do this as often as I do. I am actually looking toward possibly becoming 100% remote and incorporating a very large move in the next year or so, as well. my current commute is about 2h each way, but that includes an hour of train time where I can work 95% of the time - and that time is taken off my work day as appropriate. I totally get what GRG is saying about splitting work and home life. I think that I am able to do that by keeping work people off my FB, for instance, and keeping myself signed out of the VPN and various apps when I am NOT WORKING, caps for emphasis. but, if I have nothing going on, or if I know there's a bunch of stuff going on for work that I can be home and not have to make the 2h trek in to the office to take care of? sure, I'll be accessible. I know there will be a day that I need someone else around to answer a question for me. why wouldn't I help out when I can?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2019 7:57:11 GMT -5
While the convenience of working from home appeals to me, I abhor the mixing of home and work life. I NEED to keep them separate. I tend toward the “all or nothing” approach to work. Trying to balance work AND home at home would mean one would lose out. No thanks. I'm the same way. I like punch out and not have to think about work at all the second I leave. It's probably why I never moved up much in the industry. Even an entry level engineering position would require I be on call.
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