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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
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bsudbrink:
For those at home by themselves that might enjoy a lunchtime "pick-me-up", AV Geeks is doing a YouTube live stream each day at 1pm EDT.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV78nuSmJxTtHaD4wnzPJkA
PlainName:

--- Quote ---The NHS page I am looking at ...
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Entirely possible it's changed since I looked at it last!
Ranayna:
That mention of lack of social contact got me thinking, to be honest.
I am in the office today, but I am almost alone. The company I work for has more that 1000 employees at my location, in the office building where I am sitting, normally around 400, in the open space office where I have my desk, around 30, with two of those offices used by IT.

It's eerie today. My office is empty, except for me. In the other IT office are two guys supporting colleagues that still need stuff for their home office. And then there are maybe 20 people in the rest of the building... All others are working from home.

I always thought of myself as not really needing many social contacts. Due to my living conditions and general "introvertness" I do not have many social contacts outside of the office.
Now I am actually missing something at the moment. The office was always quite busy (which is somewhat of a disadvantage if you need to concentrate), but I am honestly missing the banter... Now the silence makes it difficult to focus. :-//

Traffic in my area has noticeably gone down, even though it never really was all that busy on my commute. The supermarkets seem to do business as usual, even cheap noodles, rice, flour and toilet paper are available. Restaurants are only allowed to open between 6:00 to 18:00, non essential shops are almost completely shut down.

I reckon that this will last quite some time. I would not be surprised at 2 Months, and maybe even more severe shutdown of public life.
I wonder if we (humanity as a whole) will learn from this.
AndyC_772:
I think we're all experiencing the effect of the shock to the system right now. Hopefully that, at least, will pass soon.

I'm quite used to being on my own during the day, but I try to arrange at least one customer visit each week for various reasons. If that has to stop - and it probably will, since most of the work I do *can* be done remotely even if it's not ideal - then it's going to be hard.


--- Quote from: Stray Electron on March 19, 2020, 02:36:24 pm ---   What? We aren't sufficient social company?

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IMHO one of the great weaknesses of EEVblog is that discussions deemed "off-topic" get stamped out so quickly, so I don't really know anything about anyone's interests outside of electronics. Imagine sitting in a sports bar and getting kicked out for talking about music, it would be ridiculous, but that's what seems to happen here.
Black Phoenix:

--- Quote from: Ranayna on March 19, 2020, 03:00:22 pm ---I wonder if we (humanity as a whole) will learn from this.

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Some will learn, most don't...

I kinda understand what you say, normally the IT and programmer guys are introvertive people. We like our space, if we have the computer we have everything we need to spend a day on, there is always something to do, something to check and something to fix.
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