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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
Towger:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 11, 2020, 11:59:08 pm ---With the new WHO pandemic declaration, governments, companies, schools etc will go into ultra arse-covering mode & shut down. Be prepared to work from home shortly.
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I am already working from home. We had a very high number of technical calls yesterday most from companies planning on doing the same.
I expect the schools to 'close' in the next few days. I got a very detailed email from the kid's secondary school a few hours ago. They plan business as usual, same timetable, but all online. (No CB Radio bush school style.) For the last few years the kids have had Microsoft accounts, MS Teams, full Office 360, Skype and Email etc. (Head of the PTA work in MS.) In the past they have only really used email, office360 and a few teachers use MS Teams. All the teachers are currently being trained on their use. The school now wants school books to be brought home from lockers each day, in case they are told not to open.
Yes they still use books, another local school is iPad only and from what we hear parents and teachers are not happy.
In contrast is the youngest (couple of weeks older than Sagon) National school. They probably plan on starting a very early Summer Holiday.
james_s:
I've been working from home but I think I'll go into the officer tomorrow, I'm actually a bit tired of being home. There's a group of perpetual worriers that I work with and during this time I've had to listen to them stirring each other up into a panic on a daily basis. I'm *so* sick of people posting all these hyperbolic news articles, you'd think the world was coming to an end.
The only thing I really fear from this virus is the very real threat of a massive global economic depression. Well that and the way people will behave if we ever get a virus going around that is unusually deadly rather than just unusually easy to spread. It's already chaotic and I have a hard time dealing with what I view as irrational/emotionally driven behavior rather than calculated actions based on coherent logic and reason. It stresses me out when I'm around people who are being emotional and I wish I could just tell them to shut up and stop perpetuating it. I refuse to let my life be ruled by fear.
MrMobodies:
I see the the spam or phishing mail has started.
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 12, 2020, 02:50:36 am ---I've been working from home but I think I'll go into the officer tomorrow, I'm actually a bit tired of being home. There's a group of perpetual worriers that I work with and during this time I've had to listen to them stirring each other up into a panic on a daily basis. I'm *so* sick of people posting all these hyperbolic news articles, you'd think the world was coming to an end.
The only thing I really fear from this virus is the very real threat of a massive global economic depression. Well that and the way people will behave if we ever get a virus going around that is unusually deadly rather than just unusually easy to spread. It's already chaotic and I have a hard time dealing with what I view as irrational/emotionally driven behavior rather than calculated actions based on coherent logic and reason. It stresses me out when I'm around people who are being emotional and I wish I could just tell them to shut up and stop perpetuating it. I refuse to let my life be ruled by fear.
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Talking to the staff at the local supermarket, they were snickering about people buying toilet paper and kitchen towels in enormous quantities. Seriously, wiping their rears is people's main concern? ...
Red Squirrel:
There was a case in a city only 3 hours away from where I live. The fact that it's this close to home might make things get more interesting.
My company getting us to make sure we have VPN access in case we need to grab our desktops and work from home. I kinda hope it happens tbh, would be kinda fun I think... never got to work from home before. :P
I just don't know what they will do for the phones. Maybe install some kind of soft phone on our PC or something, but that has to somehow interface with the PBX and have all the lines work on it. Thinking they would just let the phones take a hit, maybe the IVR would just have a message saying to send an email for any assistance or something.
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