Working From Home

[Darts]

I somehow doubt we will ever go back fully to the old normal. I have been working from home 1-2 days most weeks even before the pandemic.

Regarding call centres and the quality of the agent's English. It actually doesn't matter now whether they are in the Philippines, in India or in Mississauga because often it is the same quality of English.

 

[Darts]

Seems like some people don't want to go back to the office (at least not full-time anyway).

Why wouldn't people enjoy being stuck in traffic during a blizzard in mid-January trying to get to the office?

 

[Male4Strapon]

Traffic aside, I hate working from home and much prefer working from the office. Sometimes it's a nice break but I find I become too absorbed with work when I am at home. I lose sense of time. I will see it's 2 pm and I haven't had any lunch or its 6 pm and I am still working. I prefer the structure of being in the office so even with the option to work from home due to covid, I have still chosen to go in more often than not.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

Working from home since pandemic hit. Love working from home.
No more driving 45 minutes one way, no more 407.
I only drive my car to buy groceries and occasional errands.
If/when COVID has been effectively managed, I'm hoping that I can continue to work from home.
My workplace's productivity hasn't been affected at all.

Is that because you were doing fuck all in the first place?

 

[Jenesis]

Traffic aside, I hate working from home and much prefer working from the office. Sometimes it's a nice break but I find I become too absorbed with work when I am at home. I lose sense of time. I will see it's 2 pm and I haven't had any lunch or its 6 pm and I am still working. I prefer the structure of being in the office so even with the option to work from home due to covid, I have still chosen to go in more often than not.

This use to be a big problem for me until I made my office a separate room and while it was hard, I set alarms and trained my brain to see the home office as the regular office.

I would show up to the home office, same time as the regular one. I would get dressed, shower, etc just like I would if I was going to the regular office. I took lunch at the same time, and “left” at the same time.

Now I am better. I can chunk off two hours here for this and then break for that and then back at this for a few more hours. This gives me time in between to fish, see escorting clients, fish, catch up on house work or projects, and did I mention fish! LOL.

 

[Darts]

Does anybody miss Joe from the office bragging about his financial and sexual exploits. LOL!

Guys, remember to not do anything or say anything "inappropriate" when you are back in the office.

 

[Zipperpants]

I somehow doubt we will ever go back fully to the old normal. I have been working from home 1-2 days most weeks even before the pandemic.

Regarding call centres and the quality of the agent's English. It actually doesn't matter now whether they are in the Philippines, in India or in Mississauga because often it is the same quality of English.
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Not exactly true. American companies and some Canadian ones moved their call centers from India to the Philippines because India caters more to the UK style while Philippines caters more to western. They found a lot of people in North America did not understand the UK style jargon.

 

[JackBurton]

I always used to feel sorry for all the people that bought homes in Barrie who weren’t familiar with the drive into the city Nov - Feb and got suckered into cheap housing in Barrie 15 yrs ago. It’s way worse than the Hamilton-Toronto commute.

Hopefully work from home helps the majority of those commuters out.

 

[Darts]

I always used to feel sorry for all the people that bought homes in Barrie who weren’t familiar with the drive into the city Nov - Feb

Isn't there a GO train that takes one from Barrie/Collingwood straight into Toronto? Just asking.