Coronavirus **support** thread
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Jun 2020
9:44am, 17 Jun 2020
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Yorkshire Pie
We have daily team meetings and two quizzes each week (we are a team of 3 but get invited along to a couple of other team's social calls). If this evolves into working from home more permanently I may well consider a loft conversion, as two of us at the kitchen table isn't ideal. I'm not finding it too bad posture wise, and we don't use the kitchen table for eating anyway most of the time (we also have a breakfast bar for that) but trying not to both be on a call at the same time means a big of juggling. It would also let me set up a proper monitor as at the moment I'm just working off a laptop screen. |
Jun 2020
9:47am, 17 Jun 2020
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swittle
Just posting this here... fetcheveryone.com/forum/wfh-advice-61304/6 |
Jun 2020
10:02am, 17 Jun 2020
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EvilPixie
I work for a large company with several offices we use Workplace and since lockdown have had a new group on there for fun and we also have the company physio post they are apparently doing exercise sessions on there too now |
Jun 2020
10:04am, 17 Jun 2020
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Markymarkmark
Reading people's experiences and issues when WFH, I've been fortunate on several counts I think. @TMW, I think unless your contract explicitly excludes it, it's reasonable for your employer to provide a decent standard of kit for the role. Presumably they have something in place for remote working around data security and the like, so I'd expect they do have a "remote working policy" of some kind? Since my team are pretty much all remote from me anyway, I didn't actually get much "social" benefit in being in the office beforehand. Almost all of my work (IT Service Mgt.) can be done remotely. Lockdown has just cemented the use of MS-Teams, Sharepoint and Yammer across the wider company, and my boss has been truly excellent about daily team huddles (tend to be 50% social, 50% work) and we have a weekly 1-1 "how are you" catch-up. The wider company isn't quite so good, apparently, but overall consensus is very near the top of the table as a good large employer. Meanwhile, MrsMMM is back to cooking for a children's nursery based in a large mobile building (not a Portakabin (TM). Oh no. Being based in the same city as them, I know they're sniffy about their trademarks!). Social distancing is problematic, to say the least. This weekend I will reconfigure the small room into an office, with a baby desk. The room has been the "ironing room" for the last few years, so that'll have to change. The desk actually came home with middle child when she finished Uni, 8 years ago! It is still in it's box, unopened and unused! Hope it's all there - can't see Ikea honouring a return otherwise.  That will also involve drilling a hole in the hall ceiling to run a wire from the router, since I've discovered it's so much more reliable than the WiFi for using work's VPN. My boss has been gently prodding me about getting some additional kit if needed. I'll probably end up doing a supermarket sweep to the offices and pick up laptop docker, monitor, and keyboard. And a webcam if there's one going. And a chair. In fact, especially a chair! I've been sat mostly on the sofa in the "playroom" for the last 12 weeks - it's actually pretty comfy with a strategic cushion or two, and I've not had any biomechanical difficulties that I didn't have before. The laptop sits on my lap (where else!), on a book so it doesn't burn my knees when it gets hot, I've plugged an old TV (that we were given for caravanning) in as a second monitor and I have a mouse on a piece of board beside me. And I have plenty of opportunity to go for a walk, visit the garden if needed, look out of the window to think and so on. In fact - time to get coffee!! |
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Jun 2020
10:21am, 17 Jun 2020
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EvilPixie
excuse the mess not perfect but works being a short arse the chair could be a fraction lower but it's on it's lowest! and my foot stool isn't great (slips on wooden floor!) but after a few back issues caused by too much time at my desk I've been fine work is working at getting us back even if in split shifts but I get the feeling most of us want to stay at home now! Whereas if you had asked us in March the answer was different. I recall some of the younger ones being upset at being told to WFH and they are now the ones who want to wfh the most! |
Jun 2020
10:24am, 17 Jun 2020
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Bazoaxe
MMM - it depends on the nature of employment. Perm and fixed terms I agree with the employer responsibility for home set up, but for a genuine contractor, then I think its the responsibility of their Limited Company to provide the home office set up
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Jun 2020
11:13am, 17 Jun 2020
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JR
WFH - I was originally using my own P but work have now provided me with a new company laptop & screen and have had my office chair & Bluetooth keyboard and mouse delivered to me from the office. They have also sent me a printer which is much appreciated as our old home one was a bit rubbish. OH working from home too so he is upstairs in the room we already had as a home office as his work needs more confidential conversations & he was already WFH on some days prior to lockdown. I am working on the dinging room table. We recently bought a small extension to the table as previously it felt like the "office" set up was encroaching on the dining table when we were eating. Work have also bought me a back rest thing which attaches to the office chair and daylight bulb lamp. We haven't had a gas/electricity bill since lockdown started - I suspect those will be much higher but it's offset by the approx £100 a week we are saving in not commuting. |
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Jun 2020
11:21am, 17 Jun 2020
17,758 posts
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EvilPixie
apparently you can claim a tax credit for WFH
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Jun 2020
11:25am, 17 Jun 2020
16,714 posts
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Bazoaxe
We need special permission to print at home. I used to print everything and one gif development is that other than notebooks I am working paper free.
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Jun 2020
11:35am, 17 Jun 2020
10,416 posts
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geordiegirl
Printing at home outright banned as is email any documents to a home email.
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