So How Amenable is Your Job to Working From Home?

Can't build buildings from home.

We were installing some signs at the Student Union on friday. Hope you all like it. It was a pretty tough renovation. 

I work primarily from a home office, so I'm good.  I keep my staff at the satellite office for now. 

I'm a teacher, so the answer is that it's very easy to do it from home, but it's very hard to do it well from home.

My district seems to be handling it better than most, in my opinion. They've told us that we can continue on with the curriculum, for example, and give graded assignments and tests. The only thing we can't do is penalize late work and late tests, which I never do anyway. Basically, my district said to the teachers, You're professionals, so teach the kids the best that you can and let us know how it's going.

A lot of teachers in my small, rural school district are good. They care about the kids. Partly because here, we all know each other and half the kids in my class are my neighbors or my friends' kids or my kids' friends. So we have somewhat unique circumstances.

On the other hand, we're a public school, almost everyone has tenure, and our sick day count is outrageous (I have like 89 sick days stockpiled right now) so I am sure that a few teachers will just phone it in. But I really think that in more than half the classes, there will be a good bit of learning that occurs. Very rough guess, learning will only be reduced by 50% overall.

Usps.   Hope my 450 hours of leave doesn’t get burned if times get tough.  

I'm a HS teacher.  We are providing instruction from home.  All students have school issued laptops where they will connect with teachers and get learning materials.

Fortunately I could’ve easily worked from home 5 days a week even in normal times. My job doesn’t require me to be in the office, although I like being there 2-3 days a week anyway.

I can’t say all of my clients are as fortunate, but whether I take my meetings from the office or the house makes no difference.

I’m 3 weeks work from home due to Covid-19.

I’m the only one who works in my office, I it doesn’t matter, but I can also work from home just as well. 

I've worked from home all of my professional career.  I would not have it any other way.

I am 100% WFH right now.  My client FedEx'd me a laptop.  This engagement ends in April so who knows what is going to happen after that.  

I'm hoping for a furlough.  :)

Work for a large grain company and run 9 elevators...grain buyers can work from home, ops team unfortunately cannot...don’t really see us closing the doors unless we’re mandated by state or feds...

So we were all just ordered to work from home...but we’re a manufacturing facility. I work in quality, not on the line itself, but still. How can this possibly continue for more than a week or two without shutting down completely? We’re non-essential (as are ~95% of businesses, at least short term)  so we’ll probably be forced to shut down if we haven’t voluntarily done it by whenever the order comes. 

Attorney here. Went fully paperless a few years ago and gradually shifted to working from home to cut down on commute and avoid distractions in the office.  Only reason I would go into the office was to keep the staff morale up or out of guilt that they had to be there.  This year I got my staff approved to work from home two days a week...so the timing of that was perfect because we were equipped for this transition.  

I can realistically do 100% of my job from home, but marketing and new business development is basically cancelled for the foreseeable future.  Also, if we can't take depositions or go to court for a while, things will start to dry up and it'll be harder to keep people busy.  Right now all our courts are shut down but for essential functions like custody hearings and criminal proceedings (not my line of work). 

I'm an electrician, so not at all. It feels like only a matter of time until I am forced to take a furlough.