Well, back in spring, all the other tenants in our office building were remote, so it was the safest place you could go. Whole building to yourself.
But in this business, anywhere with a VoIP phone and a computer is "the office". I guess maybe if we were bigger, with cubicles full of sales and support people, and supervising multitudes of field techs, we would need to all be together physically in one place. Back in the dialup days, our work was mostly sitting in the office answering the phone, but in the WISP business, I know I have to take the office with me. Sometimes if I'm out to tower or customer sites, I'm checking email and voice messages at each location and dealing with them. It's a challenge to get customers to understand they need to leave a message, not assume we have phone banks just waiting for their call. I have a part time guy who comes into the office to do invoices and payments, and I go there to pay bills and file tax forms and such. One person there at a time, and on the rare occasion we encounter another tenant it's 5 seconds in the hall. Mostly the "office" has become a parts warehouse. During the spring and part of the summer, I got into the habit of having parts delivered to my house. The problem was, if I wasn't there, none of the other tenants were either, and the outside doors could be locked. UPS and FedEx will leave packages in the hall outside our door if we're not there, but not if they can't get into the building. -----Original Message----- From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Matt Hoppes Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2020 4:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] Remote Work With cases of Covid skyrocketing are any of you considering moving the office staff to remote work for the winter months? -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
