Google recommends all North America employees work from home

Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by shadowprofile77 on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:47PM (#22542475)

Because you lack a coffee machine you "have to" travel a mile for a starbucks? You've got to be kidding me. That's a preference, not a problem. Making very decent coffee requires exactly four things: 1. a small pot or kettle of nearly any kind 2. water 3. ground coffee (it can be bought ground and prepackaged by the way) 4. a source of high heat, usually found along the surface of a stove, I assume you have one of these. No offense man, but what an absurd thing to describe as a problem.

People have been making coffee like this for centuries and continue to do so without a problem. It's a no-cost fixable situation you're in.

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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by jasonboyd on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @12:23AM (#22542966)

That's all well and good but it begs the question, who is going to draw a heart in the foam on my latte? Certainly not me, I'm a backend engineer.

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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by teekert on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:36AM (#22544367)

https://www.amazon.com/Happybuy-Coffee-Printer-Design-Selfie...

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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by lapnitnelav on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @11:27PM (#22542696)

The crazy bit is that there's a life outside of work, at least in most of the developed world, and yet the comment you replied to highlights a different reality.

A symbiosis, if only temporary between the corporation and the employee.

Cue David Attenborough's voiceover.

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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by jsight on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @11:14PM (#22542618)

I think his point is that he hasn't needed a satisfactory coffee setup at home before and thus hasn't done it. If WFH is temporary, then the issues he's facing make sense.

I always work from home and I can see where his issues come from. I'm sure he'd do things differently if this were a permanent state for him.

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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by wolco on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @12:29AM (#22542995)

Or perhaps the walk to starbucks will help him get in shape.

Or perhaps he will finally be able to break the habit. Without coffee many (not all) are sleeping better and more rested. He may discover he is one of those people.

Switch coffee with donut. Or newspaper and it starts sounding like traveling an extra hour in doesn't make as much sense as biking/roller blading/walking or driving 5 minutes to grab that coffee.

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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by michaelt on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @06:59AM (#22544725)

I've no objection to people who want to take up new exercise regime and cut out coffee. Good for them!

But when people are worried about flu-like symptoms like headaches, fatigue, muscle aches and being out of breath might not be the optimal time :)

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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by fragmede on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @09:50AM (#22545807)

What? Make it myself? You might as well tell me to use instant, you philistine!

No but seriously, instant coffee ftw. There are coffee snobs and then there's getting the job done.

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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by adrianmonk on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:20AM (#22543516)

Whether it needed to happen is one question. Whether it actually happened is another question, and the answer is yes.

Productivity is ultimately going to be determined by how people actually behave, not how we believe they should behave. Not even by how they believe they should behave.

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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by m463 on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:01AM (#22543434)

That requires mindfulness, and with knowledge workers the mind is elsewhere.

Really, he is giving up the benefits of specialization, which has uplifted mankind since the dawn of time.

(pod coffee with all its faults seems to be popular)

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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by kobe_bryant on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @01:26PM (#22547762)

and if you go one step further with a chemex you'll make a pour-over as good as any third wave coffee shop

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