Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical offices until 2021

Re:Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical ... by kanox on Monday June 22, 2020 @02:59PM (#23604342)

Personally I can't wait for this to come back to normal: being inside an office for 9 hours every day helps me be productive and focus.

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Re:Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical ... by cmrdporcupine on Monday June 22, 2020 @11:07PM (#23609533)

I can't wait for it to back to normal because my employer has done an absolutely terrible job of making our infrastructure work well for remote development.

No source code allowed on laptops, but my work is on hardware devices I have to sit next to. So I have to shell to my workstation to produce binaries, port forwarding to my hardware devices to push them over, slow slow awkwad...

Part of the code base I work on is open source, so for my own sanity I'm mostly just doing that portion of work... but on my own personal (underpowered) computer. But not allowed to expense a new machine... Doing work for the corporation using my own assets...

And forced to use a chromebook as my laptop, with its awful ssh support...

Sorry, this can't end soon enough. But it won't for us until January or so. They need to fix this, or I need to find an employer who is competent at WFH.

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Re:Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical ... by Foivos on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:13PM (#23606749)

I guess it depends on your WFH situation. If you live in a big enough house to have a dedicated office room, probably it is better to WFH. If you live in a studio, where you do everything in a single room, then it is better to go to the office to change the scene a bit.

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Re:Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical ... by Polylactic_acid on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:14PM (#23608061)

idk. I basically have my office in my bedroom right now and I find it to be fine. I guess what helps is I already had 2 large monitors and a second hand high end office chair so I find this setup just as good as my one in the office just without the standing desk. I guess what helps is I live with 5 other adults so I don't feel like I am missing any kind of social element that I would have got at work.

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Re:Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical ... by aianus on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:09PM (#23605785)

Me too, man.

We can't be the only ones -- the library at my school was full of people studying independently despite absolutely zero external pressure to do so. I found myself much more productive in that environment than in my home and the (admittedly short) commute created a nice, clear separation of work vs. rest.

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Re:Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical ... by nafix on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:14PM (#23607497)

Same here. I live in a 950 square foot apartment. I can't stand being in the same space all day long. I need a change of space, and I actually enjoy working in the company building. It's a very modern work space.

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