Peter, I like working from home, less mangler distractions. My ADHD does better too
On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 2:00 PM Farley, Peter x23353 < [email protected]> wrote: > I disagree that it takes more "concentration and effort" to work at home > than in one of those "bullpen" offices that so many companies now seem to > favor, with little or no private or semi-private space for any employees. > > I have had WFH options as an ordinary applications programmer since the > late 1980's at various employers, starting back when a 9600 baud dial-up > connection was the gold standard. I would far rather be working at home > than in a "bullpen", as I find those offices far too noisy and > concentration-killing than any distractions at home could ever be. > > I always found that I got far more work done at home than at any office. > YMMV I suppose, but that has been my experience. > > I guess I am also lucky that my current employer already had a large, > distributed, and robust VPN infrastructure well suited to dispersing far > more of the workforce to WFH than they did even before the coronavirus > event. > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of Steve Beaver > Sent: Friday, March 6, 2020 10:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home? > > Working from home takes a lot of concentration and effort. It’s not easy > but I’ve done it for years > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Mar 6, 2020, at 19:54, Mark Jacobs < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > It'll be interesting to see how many companies need to enhance their > VPN infrastructure if/when they increase their remote workforce. With the > current coronavirus event, that move to a remote workforce might happen > sooner than planned. > > > > Mark Jacobs > <Snipped> > -- > > This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the > addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. > If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized > representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by > e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
