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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
Electro Detective:
--- Quote from: Muttley Snickers on April 23, 2020, 11:10:59 am ---
I had to go to the medical clinic today to see the GP for prescriptions, specialist referrals and a medical certificate and expected the place to be packed with people.
To my surprise there is normally a two hour wait to see a doctor but the place was completely empty and I was able to be seen straight away.
It turns out that it's actually a good time to be sick. ::)
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Hope you're keeping well :-+ but same deal here because there's hardly anyone sick enough to hit on the medical establishments
and or their newly embedded corona FEAR :scared: :scared: :scared: is keeping them self imprisoned at home,
and doing 'social distance' phone consultations instead :phew:
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Some may change their tune when long term "Impacts of Coronavirus' kick in
and companies decide it's not worth the drama weathering this unknown scaredemic, for how much longer ? :-//
and pack it in for the short or long term, or the bank makes that sudden decision for them :o
Let's see where honeymooning 'Working From Home-ites' will be in 6 weeks time, much less 6 months
..or 6 years if the usual suspects drag this out, since it's going so well for them and no competition :clap:
@ bd139, 10 years is good going mate and best of luck keeping it up :-+ but these are different times and stranger agendas afoot
that whatever the deal is going down, you can bet it won't be doing the working battlers and small business any favors, as usual :popcorn:
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: paulca on April 23, 2020, 10:52:46 am ---Just had a conference call with the head of delivery. He said,
"Home working is here to stay, even after this. Obviously it was always an option, but now we have proved to our clients we are fully operational with the building closed I don't see why we can't provide it as an option for all employees going forward."
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Nice! :-+
Not unexpected for smart businesses.
bd139:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 23, 2020, 11:18:31 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on April 23, 2020, 11:05:29 am ---Yeah that's not going to happen here. We were just moving into a new office block in the middle of this :palm:. So they will want everyone back in after.
It's quite clear we don't need an office block though now.
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Probably a 5 year lease or something too :scared:
I'm frustrated enough with the remainder of my two year lease.
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Even worse. They bought the building I think.
paulca:
--- Quote from: bd139 on April 23, 2020, 11:05:29 am ---Yeah that's not going to happen here. We were just moving into a new office block in the middle of this :palm:. So they will want everyone back in after.
It's quite clear we don't need an office block though now.
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Same here, we moved into a new office in October. Spend 100s of thousands on it to.
There are of course team social requirements that will bring people in again to be with their team, but I expect more people will, like me work from home one or two days a week.
Muttley Snickers:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 23, 2020, 11:17:40 am ---Aren't some of them doing it online now somehow?
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Where possible they are trying to keep the regular outpatients away from hospitals because many might now be susceptible or vulnerable in those environments. From what I have seen some of the remote consultation procedures they are trying to implement are causing more of a problem than a solution. ::)
For instance, a few days ago I received text messages from an unknown mobile number with instructions to click on a dodgy url link to verify an appointment. I had no idea what it was about so ignored it and today a nurse called to confirm a video consultation with a specialist on Monday, I told her to stop sending dodgy links to people and she apologised and said the confusion was due to their computer experts. :wtf:
The Australia Post mail delays aren't helping much either. Without a word of a lie at 14:30 today the postman delivered some letters one of which was a notice from the hospital regarding a specialists appointment scheduled for 14:00 today, I rang the hospital immediately and explained that I only just got the letter and could not attend on such short notice. :o
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