FWIW, my WFH setup for many years now includes an MS Natural keyboard and a comfortable Logitech gaming mouse that I use a USB3 switch to change between my small work laptop, large home desktop and medium-sized home laptop. IOGear makes the USB3 switch, which can handle up to 4 inputs switched among up to 4 CPU's. My 27 inch Dell monitor has multiple HDMI and DisplayPort inputs so I can switch the screen among all my machines. Lots of cables of course, but it has been well worth it.
The HumanScale office chair I bought long ago is comfortable too, not cheap but the best investment in WFH comfort I ever made. Radoslaw, I don't know how other US companies do it, but mine has a telcom setup that routes my work extension to my home land line as well as ringing in the Cisco Jabber software on my company laptop, so I don't need a company cell phone. Don't want a company cell phone either, managers get them but techies like me don't need them. If I'm not online the Tech Support OPS people know my home phone number and can call me there for production issues. If I'm not at home I am not easily reachable (not counting vacations where I do take the work laptop along for emergencies), but my manager has my personal cell number in case of a true emergency when I am out of the house. And being a true old fogey my cell is only turned on when I am out of the house. I use it strictly for phone calls and public transit schedules, and sometimes texts to/from family. No facebook, no twitter, no games, don't need and don't want any of that. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 11:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OT: Mandatory Work From Home at my company No, you don't need a big PC with a comfortable keyboard and screen that doesn't force continual scrolling, but it sure makes life more pleasant and more productive. It never ceases to amaze me how people put up with terrible human factors. Take the typical laptop keyboard - please! -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of R.S. [r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 10:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OT: Mandatory Work From Home at my company W dniu 19.03.2020 o 18:30, Jousma, David pisze: > We have been moved to Work from home for the foreseeable future. We have > company provided laptop connecting via VPN, and softphone so my office number > rings wherever my laptop is connected. Seems to be working out pretty well. > It's the WEBEX server farm that seems to be having the growing pains... Just curious: In Poland and IMHO in Europe almost any office employee has company cell phone. In my company it is mandatory. I don't know any person form IT world (IBM, EMC, HDS, HP, local companies) without the cell phone. For years. What about US? I visited US many times and in the past I was amazed how popular the pagers were, when we were using cell phones. From the other hand I learnt that telco services in US are significantly cheaper than in Europe. Note: we are using smartphones and many company application are available in the phone. That allows me to start working early morning in bed. I don't have to do it, but it is just convenient. It's not only answering emails, but also accept requests (I'm manager), calendar schedule, password reset tool, Skype (inside company, and external), address book, etc. Total it's about 25 applications. Of course it's inside secure container and connected via VPN. As someone wrote, its' 2020, not 1950. However I say: it's 2020, not 2000. You don't need big PC to do many things which you can do from the phone. -- 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
