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Life after COVID-19
neXus:
--- Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on April 07, 2020, 08:14:13 AM ---100% as above on WFH. It needs to be recognised as a normality and not an exception, thankfully tech is forward thinking on this and so its starting to get a lot of traction. My position was advertised as 100% remote (the odd trip to the office was accepted for big events, meeting the team and being inducted, etc) but we have a new starter joining next month who will not even get to meet anyone in the office and will need their Macbook posting out to them; I'll be inducting them remotely. Strange new world.
Not sure of the likelihood of this being a recurring event like the more common strains of flu, so far this has been categorised as more like SARS/MERS which are infrequent. I hope so anyway.
Hopefully with the sheer volume of ongoing parallel research now happening, this will become a time when we work out ingenious ways of putting some of these viruses to bed properly without the same level of effort needed each time (the same way they are starting to figure out how treatments that can attack any cancers). On that note: https://www.city-journal.org/coronavirus-vaccine
Right now though, I can only see the culture of fear and surveillance getting stronger, while the economy continues to tank. Pay off your mortgages ASAP folks.
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My Boss hates WFH even though every time I have with my setup being better then the office and less disruptions I do way more - He always forces it into his head that I do not to justify it not being a good idea. It is not so easy for me there though being the lead developer and leading the team, teaching juniors and helping them etc.
Clock'd 0Ne:
Our team lead is in Aus and we talk to him once a day in the morning if he's around, it just needs a bit of planning. Onboarding people is the biggest challenge but that can be tackled with screen sharing and video conferencing. It will never be quite as good as being in the same room but I'd say its 70% there, good enough provided your onboarding process is decent. If it isn't decent, you should improve it!
Serious:
Nothing stopping you having a constant private internet voice connection, work sharing, and bulletin board. Heck every gamer group now has access to discord.
Plenty of other work sharing packages out there and in reality being able to get people together without the often long journey into an office is a boon for everyone.
Edit missed a comma.
Clock'd 0Ne:
Most corporates use Slack & Zoom/MS Teams now, I don't think Discord would wash well with corporate IT.
Serious:
I woulds agree with that, I used Discord as an example, but there is Discord for Business and some small companies do seem to use it. Skype for Business is also available.
Then if this report is right we are now in an entirely different ball park.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/07/51-recovered-coronavirus-patients-test-positive-again-in-south-korea/
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