I've been working remotely for the last 2.5 years and absolutely love it. Some of my team does go in to the office but the rest are spread throughout the country and other parts of the world. We use Skype for Business for IM and desktop sharing. We also use MS Group Chat for notifications and groups discussions. Those coupled with calls are all we need. We never do video and I have no idea what most of my team members look like.
I do have an office room in my house where I work most of the time. It has everything my cubicle in an office would have without all the noise and distractions that come from an office environment. I get that some folks like the office setting and couldn't be a productive in a WFH environment. For me, it's been awesome and I really don't think I could or would consider a job that requires going into the office. I can move anywhere in the country and still do my job. I no longer lose significant chunks of my life to a commute or have to deal with driving in bad weather. My 2ยข's. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 11:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: remote system support (i.e. the data center is 2 states away from you). This is kind of a curiosity question and kind of serious. There is a chance that I might be offered a job where the data center is about 20 hours away by car (according to Google maps). Needless to say, there is no going in overnight to fix a problem. So I'm wondering if others here support a z/OS system where getting to the data center would be a long commute (unless you have your own plane, like some I know). How does that work out? In this shop, we haven't had any "operators" for about 5 years, maybe more. We systems people do all the hardware interfacing, tape management, IPL'ing, and "CE baby sitting" (being on-site while they work). This is really removed me from the historic paradigm. I somewhat like the thought of working from the house. But I also worry about being somewhat excluded from the unofficial information channels (i.e. company gossip). I also wonder about things like meetings and just being "invisible" and so "out of mind" when decisions are made. -- Heisenberg may have been here. Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
