I disagree that it takes more "concentration and effort" to work at home than in one of those "bullpen" offices that so many companies now seem to favor, with little or no private or semi-private space for any employees.
I have had WFH options as an ordinary applications programmer since the late 1980's at various employers, starting back when a 9600 baud dial-up connection was the gold standard. I would far rather be working at home than in a "bullpen", as I find those offices far too noisy and concentration-killing than any distractions at home could ever be. I always found that I got far more work done at home than at any office. YMMV I suppose, but that has been my experience. I guess I am also lucky that my current employer already had a large, distributed, and robust VPN infrastructure well suited to dispersing far more of the workforce to WFH than they did even before the coronavirus event. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Friday, March 6, 2020 10:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home? Working from home takes a lot of concentration and effort. It’s not easy but I’ve done it for years Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 6, 2020, at 19:54, Mark Jacobs > <00000224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> 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 <Snipped> -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
