we were told we are back to 3 on/2 off. or whatever. i will move as I see best for me I guess.
i like camera on for meetings where I speak so I can read faces. my role is mostly sales, so reading reactions from the people who will be doing the buying.
I leave off for internal ones so they don’t see me “multi tasking.”
What do you use for a whiteboard/blackboard when teaching remotely?
I’ve been thinking about getting one of those overhead document reader webcam things that let you lay down a piece of paper and write on it. Similiar to what our profs used in university to display their written notes onto overhead projector screens instead of using the whiteboards.
That works pretty well for a lecture if you set it up right. Some of our teachers have been doing that. Drawbacks are students can’t collaborate in real time and you have to physically switch to a new piece of paper, unless you have one of those scrolling paper rolls.
When I do zoom I’m either annotating a PowerPoint or using OneNote. I use the zoom whiteboard feature too sometimes, but OneNote is way better because of the infinite scrolling.
It’s really nice when working one-on-one and we can both draw on the same screen. It’s the best simulation of the old method of sitting next to each other and writing on the same piece of paper.
Will these gas prices push anyone to work from home?
Thank you. The limited whiteboard stuff I tried during tutoring didn’t have scrolling which was part of my dislike. I feel I can’t get as much down on a screen electronically as I can on paper. I’ll have a look.
Teams has a whiteboard feature. I tried it once and it was cludgy, but I think with some practice, it would be OK. It does scroll.
Everyone was converted to full time remote and you have to opt in to in office.
dammit, why did they have to send us back to the office on DST week?
Our office is usually 10-20% staffed, but our division is requesting everybody to come in on the same day to mingle.
Half my reason to not go in-office is to avoid mingling with people due to COVID. My partner has still dodged it and I’d feel terrible if I brought it back to them for a free lunch.
No such thing.
Well, I’m alive so far.
Anybody want to meet up on Thursday in Hartford? I was thinking of going to the Wadsworth that afternoon. I think they’re open on Thursdays now.
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And from today I learned, musk is about to find out that there’s lots of wfh positions elsewhere for his staff.
And he responded to a tweet asking for more info that if people want to continue working remotely they can “pretend to work someplace else” 
I think he’ll lose staff at Twitter too, particularly since they’re going to be much more into WFH
Seriously? He thinks you need to physically be in the office to get work done? In this day and age?
My company’s tippytop leadership has the same mentality.
But they’re also spineless, and don’t want to see even higher turnover, so, they begrudgingly allow WFH for many. But they really do believe that people who want to be WFH are trying to get away with something.
What is the point in a massive office if no one is there to envy it!?
By the time my company’s RTO date was finally reached, it had relaxed its stance of “at least 2 days a week” to “we’d like you to see you on a regular basis”.
I made my first trip into the office a few weeks ago. (Pre-pandemic, I was in a couple of days each month, since I live 5 hours away.) The first day, there were maybe 10 of us on the floor of a downtown office tower. The second day, there were only 3 of us (my team).
We had 3 options: full-time in office, full-time remote, or hybrid (in at least 3 days a week). Most managers have to do at least hybrid, some have to do FTO. Anyone with an office has to be at least hybrid, or they lose their office.
I chose to go hybrid. Partially to keep the office, partially because I like coming in and seeing other people. After 2+ years of it, I kind of need that; Mrs. Hoffman cannot answer my questions or shoot the breeze on random stuff, and I can be only cooped up inside looking out at the yard so much before I hit the point of I gotta get the hell out, I don’t care where I’m going but I’m getting outta here for a little while.
My thoughts after a month of RTO: it’s OK. I don’t know that I need to be in 3 days a week. Certainly there’s ~90 minutes a day when I’m in the office that I’m driving to/from that I could probably be at home doing more productive stuff. I definitely don’t need to be in for meetings, because much of the staff I’d be in meetings with is remote so it’s not like I’m missing out on face-to-face stuff that way. Do I need the office? Probably not, since I don’t have F2F things and don’t supervise anyone. It’s a nice-to-have, though.
My boss is of the opinion - and it’s his opinion only - that you know what, this hybrid thing is kind of dumb, if you need to come in for a meeting fine, otherwise I don’t care if you’re in 3 days a week, just make sure work gets done. That’s always been his stance. I would have been fine with in 3 days/week, until I remembered how much time I’m losing going to/from and then noticing gas is $4.55/gallon and even though it’s only 3 days/week, that’s … getting … a little expensive. So I might dial it back, but then I also think in 7 weeks, you’ll be out on medical leave and not back in until October at the earliest so maybe I’ll stick it out and re-evaluate after that.