If you work from home what do you do?

[Tefal]

I've always been kinda curious what happens inall these office type jobs especially with all the wfh.

What specifically do you all actually do?

I only ever hear vague "answer emails" or have teams meetings.

Are you all just round Robin emailing each other or does something happen somewhere?

 

[Yaayuh!]

Support, implement, manage, meet and maintain.

I work in IT, so a lot can be done remotely from home. Until it can't which is usually bad as it'll be a physical issue

 

[Ayahuasca]

Fight the urge to do anything other than work.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Submit monthly reporting data
Update / review procedures
Project based work as required
Answer technical questions from n00bs
Incident investigation and action updates
Watch TV

 

[Tefal]

Submit monthly reporting data
Update / review procedures
Project based work as required
Answer technical questions from n00bs
Incident investigation and action updates
Watch TV

So what is "project based work"?

 

[AiiR]

Supporting software for a company so literally troubleshooting tickets 3rd line and sitting on project meetings.

It's all pretty dull but the upside is that quieter periods allow for uninterrupted training to pad out the CV or kicking back for some gaming time.

In the office it was impossible to sit and spend downtime doing productive things like free training courses because there's always an element of 'looking busy' but WFH I've managed to upskill myself on SQL and server infrastructure to plug holes in my CV.

 

[dave28]

not myself but sister is on 12 hour shift track and trace today, phoning members of the public is not fun from what i gather. Gobby angry people all day

 

[Deleted member 651465]

So what is "project based work"?

I run a TPM pillar for site, so sorting out tasks that need to be done and checking progress on those. For instance, as part of the pillar we have implemented a health and wellbeing committee, so that may also mean sorting out an event such as a charity bike ride or cake sale.

Projects could be any number of long term improvement (construction, procedural or skill wise) but can't really go in to detail without giving the game away

 

[Tefal]

I run a TPM pillar for site, so sorting out tasks that need to be done and checking progress on those. For instance, as part of the pillar we have implemented a health and wellbeing committee, so that may also mean sorting out an event such as a charity bike ride or cake sale.

Projects could be any number of long term improvement (construction, procedural or skill wise) but can't really go in to detail without giving the game away

I'm still fairly clueless here


I'm going to put it down as organises bake sales


I suppose what I mean woth this is kinda what are you all producing? Like what happens if you're not there? Is a lot of it just information condensation?


After Googling TPM say do you collect all the armour maintainence shudules and produce a master schedule for some one to follow etc?

 

[Sheff]

Rudimentary database administration.
Writing of reports.
Data visualisation (Power BI and R Shiny).
Writing training material and delivering training.

 

[Surveyor]

People will be doing essentially the same work they did in an office.

 

[Tefal]

People will be doing essentially the same work they did in an office.

Yeah but what is that?

 

[Sheff]

People will be doing essentially the same work they did in an office.

Yeah, my job (in terms of workflow rather than topic) hasn't changed much apart from face to face meetings moving to Teams.

 

[randomshenans]

Erm... I do my job? lol

Which depends on what priority is set (which fire is burning) on any day/week/month. Right now I'm dealing with a larger part of the business and their compliance part of the organization making us adopt their SOPs, which don't fit with our operating model. So trying to come up with strategy to cover the compliance controls we must, while making them work for our way of working and not creating huge overhead and red tape. Somehow this is in scope of my product management role, but hey. I do a lot of defining of ways of working at the moment.

Same as I would in the office, with fewer coffee breaks but more Youtube watching

 

[almoststew1990]

I calculate the capacity of junctions and work out Where People Are Going.
I write reports that get used in the planning process.
I draw stuff in AutoCAD (2D only so my laptop does not explode)
I also have meetings and answer emails with more emails and say "let's take this offline" etc
I sit at my desk and think time is a valuable thing I watch it fly as the pendulum swings, watch it count down to the end of the day, the clock ticks life away.
I WhatsApp my partner in the next room.

 

[nightwish]

Software development.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Answer technical questions from n00bs

^ This is just for OcUK forums right?


Remote Sysadmin (SMB's only)

Microsoft office licensing (+setup, rollout, migrations e.t.c).
Microsoft windows licensing (+setup, rollout, migrations e.t.c).
Microsoft 0365 Email (setup/migration/administration).
VPN connections (new, existing, migrations and administration).
Various other applications on request (sage, payroll manager, SIMMA e.t.c).
General desktop support (Outlook, password resets, group policies).
Active directory (setup, migrations, changes and administration).
Remote switch configurations from various hardware.
VOIP (multiple setups from ground up, migrations and current, different hardware, software and administration)
Fiber connection tests (if a line is slow or goes down)
Documentation on any aspects of above.

Some days I don't get any tickets at all so I do the below, some days I'm super busy.

All of the above while watching TV, listening to music, playing games and drinking tea/coffee.

 

[Bug One]

Software development. Could work from anywhere I can connect to the VPN.

 

[chroniclard]

Also software dev, so dev software.... (Also procrastinate a lot, like now)

 

[nst68]

Write and maintain code.
Empty and fill the dishwasher.