I started working from home twice a week, three years ago. Having never previously worked home before (always five days in the office). One of the best things I've ever done.
I've been doing work from home for some time, but it's generally been in addition to -- rather than in place of -- work from on-site. It's definitely easier to plow through several hours of paperwork while drinking a glass of wine or two.
Indeed you can do hundreds of things while you are at home working. Which explains why I never got anything done. Only joking. If your job supports it, I would heartily recommend that people do it. It's only convention that stops people, if their company allows it.
I wouldn't say it's only convention that stops it, many people enjoy the social aspect of seeing and speaking to people day in day out. Particularly if they live alone.
I'm not talking of those people. I'm talking of people who never done it, and have never considered it, being too entrenched in "going to work".
I've never done it but it's certainly not something I'd be interested in doing full time. Would quite likely have a negative affect on my mental health.
Yep I work with a guy (lol remotely of course), who is in the Plymouth office. He goes in every day in a shirt and tie and even though the office attire is casual. not even smart casual. He says "it isn't real work unless you are in the office and dressed up nicely" He is only 38 and so out of touch with the modern world. Three years ago we moved our data centre from Bournemouth to Uxbridge. I worked from home the whole time, except for changeover week where i went into the Bournemouth office to physically shut down systems (ie pull the plug from the wall) and repatch networks. There is no way in the world we would have got the move done of a production datacenter with live customers on it (we are a white label travel insurance company - you probably had our policies through banks, third parties etc without knowing) without me and my colleagues working from home. Still we are closing down now, what a great time to get redundancy money.......
Stir-craziness definitely sets in; I got stuck at home for four days after a blizzard a couple years ago, and that was enough. My neighbours will seriously regret it if we get to the "balcony singalong" stage.
Nowadays, I "go to work" [referencing that other topic] and I pass my local supermarket around 6.30am. The restocking truck is always there or is just leaving. I would agree with Tom that early morning is possibly the best time for getting your essentials.
From the BBC: "Confirmed cases in the UK rose to 2,626 on Wednesday, from 1,950 on Tuesday. There have been 56,221 tests carried out in the UK for Covid-19, of which 53,595 were confirmed negative. The government says it plans to more than double the number of tests being carried out in England to 25,000 a day." Maths don't add up unless I am missing something. 25k a day - 'more than double' to it. So say at the moment 10k a day. so we have only been testing for 5 ½ days? EDIT: Also 56k is less than 0.01% of the population....
I've been snowed in 5 times. Totally loved each time. One time was for nearly 10 days [this is rural Kent I'm talking about]. The company I worked for could hardly believe it until I provided evidence with photos. I lived in the sticks at the time and our rural road towards Ashford was bordered by 12 ft high hedges. So I took several photos of the road from higher ground, There were minor bumps going away from the camera. Those were the hedges. Between the hedges was the road and 12 cars abandoned and buried. If I had a functioning scanner I'd post a photo on here [upon finding it in the house]. I think they still have a copy on the wall of one of the snaps in the local Egerton pub.
It's the frontline NHS staff that needed/need testing as a priority from day one. I've a big why not about that.
The BBC website got it wrong. The government said that testing would go up fivefold from 5,000 to 25,000 daily.
Just found out my 93 year old neighbor has died. Not virus related i believe, his health had been deteriorating for a little while. He would have hated being locked up as he was the type to go out every day and thinking of him getting through it had worried me, so i guess i can look at the positive that he's avoided that and had a long life. He was a big saints fan when he was a bit younger and i would still chat with him about matches. As a highlight he helped design the Folland Gnat, the old red arrows plane: please log in to view this image