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Joining the great WFH brigade
Being on multiple social media channels in parallel means losing track of what I've posted where...
My employer has strongly advised that anyone who can work from home should do so. (Since we're a pharmaceutical production facility, lots of employees need to be physically present, so those of us with purely office jobs are helping protect the production folks from potential exposure.)
My previous single-day instances of working from home have tended to be unsatisfactory due to the differences in workstation set-up, but knowing this was going to be relatively long term, I picked up an additional monitor (so that I have two large external monitors, plus the laptop screen, which is only marginally worse than my office set-up) plus picked up a cheapo full size keyboard (I never bother with a separate keyboard for my Mac). And it's being quite functional. Enough that it may spoil me! The quiet is a bit unnerving (other than the cat water fountain, the traffic outside, etc.) but I've been running classical music to offset that. I don't have the trainees asking questions at random intervals, which you might think would be a productivity plus, but overall it's probably a minus since the idea is to get them fully up to speed. And that won't happen if they're floundering on things where a quick check-in could help. (I'm doing proactive check-ins with my primary trainee.) The morning staff meeting is actually much more productive since the need to unmute your mic to make comments is discouraging random chitchat.
And I'm taking the opportunity to do some serious cooking, since the kitchen is just steps away. Currently the slow cooker has a beef chuck roast braising with onions, dry cider, and plum puree. (Hey, you improvise with what you have.) I'm not self-quarantining to the point of not going to the grocery store, and the ability to get out on my bike at lunchtime can get combined with that on occasion.
And, of course, I have social media to keep me connected with the world. I suppose it's not that much different than usual, given my fairly low level of face-to-face social interactions outside of work.
The one item I'm hoping to improve is sleep habits. So far I'm enjoying the just-in-time wake-up time, but I don't feel like I've actually improved my overall sleep yet. That may come.
My employer has strongly advised that anyone who can work from home should do so. (Since we're a pharmaceutical production facility, lots of employees need to be physically present, so those of us with purely office jobs are helping protect the production folks from potential exposure.)
My previous single-day instances of working from home have tended to be unsatisfactory due to the differences in workstation set-up, but knowing this was going to be relatively long term, I picked up an additional monitor (so that I have two large external monitors, plus the laptop screen, which is only marginally worse than my office set-up) plus picked up a cheapo full size keyboard (I never bother with a separate keyboard for my Mac). And it's being quite functional. Enough that it may spoil me! The quiet is a bit unnerving (other than the cat water fountain, the traffic outside, etc.) but I've been running classical music to offset that. I don't have the trainees asking questions at random intervals, which you might think would be a productivity plus, but overall it's probably a minus since the idea is to get them fully up to speed. And that won't happen if they're floundering on things where a quick check-in could help. (I'm doing proactive check-ins with my primary trainee.) The morning staff meeting is actually much more productive since the need to unmute your mic to make comments is discouraging random chitchat.
And I'm taking the opportunity to do some serious cooking, since the kitchen is just steps away. Currently the slow cooker has a beef chuck roast braising with onions, dry cider, and plum puree. (Hey, you improvise with what you have.) I'm not self-quarantining to the point of not going to the grocery store, and the ability to get out on my bike at lunchtime can get combined with that on occasion.
And, of course, I have social media to keep me connected with the world. I suppose it's not that much different than usual, given my fairly low level of face-to-face social interactions outside of work.
The one item I'm hoping to improve is sleep habits. So far I'm enjoying the just-in-time wake-up time, but I don't feel like I've actually improved my overall sleep yet. That may come.
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I echo the suggestion of using IM to keep in touch with your work colleagues for all of the places where there would have been a quick chat if you were in the office, both the on-topic, and the off-topic stuff.
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