I've been asked in my current organization to check if I can work from home. Many of my colleagues said they'd be happy to do it if the organization gave them lighter laptops to carry home each day. And a couple raised the question could the VPN infrastructure support that many concurrent users. Good questions.
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020, 2:54 PM 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 > > Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. > > GPG Public Key - > https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&[email protected] > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Friday, March 6, 2020 7:52 PM, Bob Bridges <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Good point; yeah, that's gotta have an effect, though I suppose it may > be slight. > > > > What I've noticed, in the last five or ten years, is the increasing > range of the ~types~ of jobs that are being done remotely. Twenty years ago > I would have been surprised to find that companies were willing to have me > work on their mainframe security from home. Ten years ago I noticed they > were doing it with systems programmers, too. Nowadays I see the occasional > req for remote managers. I suppose there are some jobs that simply cannot > be done from home, forever, but fewer than before. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 > > > > /* The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the > old ones. -Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) */ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson > > Sent: Friday, March 6, 2020 18:56 > > > > Came across this lengthy thread from last year. No one seemed to mention > the effects of a world-wide pandemic. You just can't think of everything... > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
