All of the members of our entire company work from home. I have enjoyed the flexibility of working from my home office - I don’t have to deal with commutes, rush hour or having to fly back and forth to the office. For me. I find I’m more productive. If I think about a way to test a bug or get over some hump in development I’m just down the hall from my office
Another example I’m out of the office and I need to connect I have three ways to our mainframe: (1). If I’m in a development cycle and I’m going to be local, I’ll take my smaller HP laptop and connect using local Wi-FI from the building I’m in. (2). If I’m going to be on the road I can work from one of the passenger seats in my pickup. Again, I’ll use my HP mini but this time I use the local Wi-Fi (router) access GM has installed with my new Z71 Silverado. Side Note: since this is satellite-based I always seem to have coverage. FYI, Last spring, this connection worked very well when we drove from Lubbock, Tx to Minneapolis, Mn to attend the NCAA Final Four. (3). If I’m out at lunch or dinner, etc. with my family and I need to login, I’ll use my iPhone XS Max. It has just enough screen real estate to get work accomplished without having to flip-flop PF Keys, Screen Keys, etc. Of course in all three situations above I use a VPN client for secure access. When I’m using my HP mini I use the Vista TN3270 Emulator (from Tom Brennan Software) however I use Attachmate’s TN3270 for iPhone access Regards, Gary Garland Gregory, MS DINO-Software Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 10:22:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home? Well, every other month would leave 3 weeks for training. On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 7:09 AM Ron Hawkins <ron.hawk...@ipsicsopt.com> wrote: > > Raphael, > > Calendar days. Vacations, public holidays, sick days, etc are all calendar > days. > > Arrive on Wednesday, and leave the next Wednesday is seven days, which is > only nine months at a week per month. > > Most training, customer briefing, etc also happens in California, so there > are 5-10 days a year at least as well. > > If for some unforeseen we blow the 60 days, who is going to pay the > employee's tax in California? If they were at 50 days and visited the > amusement parks in LA for 1.5 weeks they've blown it. > > And that's the main reason it was mothballed and made ad hoc. > > Ron > > > RON HAWKINS > Director, Ipsicsopt Pty Ltd (ACN: 627 705 971) > m+61 400029610| t: +1 4085625415 | f: +1 4087912585 > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of > Raphaël Jacquot > Sent: Thursday, 22 August 2019 17:26 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from > home? > > Le 22/08/2019 à 08:54, Ron Hawkins a écrit : > > > I liked to have our team to train and work face to face occasionally > > and had regular fly-ins of the team for a week. California killed this > > off as they want to declare you a tax resident if you spend more than > > 60 calendar days in the state. Tell that to someone from Nevada. > > considering there are 52 weeks in a calendar year, and there are vacations / > holidays / out of the country periods, you should be fine with once a week > > Raphael > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
