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Jun. 29th, 2020 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretAs of last Wednesday, I am back to working full-time on-site. I have mixed feelings about this, naturally. On the side of it being relatively safe, we are a tiny company and everyone here is as paranoid as I am about avoiding risky situations, we've implemented protocols to minimize transmission risk including wearing masks, taking everyone's temperature and logging it daily, sanitizing high contact surfaces regularly, and restricting visitors to the company. And New Jersey's infection rate has gone down quite significantly and has continued to drop as we slowly open up more of the state.
On the other hand, no on-site protocol mitigates all risk. The virus is not going away anytime soon, all it takes is some incidental contact in the supermarket for someone to catch it and spread it, and clearly it's transmissible when people are not symptomatic. So I am worrying to some degree. It's also going to make me warier about starting to visit friends and family in low risk ways going forward. The more the chance I might be carrying the virus, the less good an idea that is.
I also separately have mixed feelings about my effectiveness professionally in working on-site vs remote. There are parts of my job that were close to impossible to do remotely, and parts that were much more difficult, because they depended on types of communication that were harder remotely. That led to my boss's decision to say that working remotely was no longer possible. But there were also parts of my job that I got done much more effectively remotely, because of less distractions and, when I was interrupted, more focused interruptions. So I'm going to go back to being frustrated about different things than I was frustrated about when I was working at home.
Too, there were nice fringe benefits of working at home. I'm going to miss being able to bake stuff while I worked. I'm not sure that balanced out against the annoyance of having my work computer taking up half my dining room table and just generally not feeling like I had good separation between work and personal life, but it was nice.
On the other hand, no on-site protocol mitigates all risk. The virus is not going away anytime soon, all it takes is some incidental contact in the supermarket for someone to catch it and spread it, and clearly it's transmissible when people are not symptomatic. So I am worrying to some degree. It's also going to make me warier about starting to visit friends and family in low risk ways going forward. The more the chance I might be carrying the virus, the less good an idea that is.
I also separately have mixed feelings about my effectiveness professionally in working on-site vs remote. There are parts of my job that were close to impossible to do remotely, and parts that were much more difficult, because they depended on types of communication that were harder remotely. That led to my boss's decision to say that working remotely was no longer possible. But there were also parts of my job that I got done much more effectively remotely, because of less distractions and, when I was interrupted, more focused interruptions. So I'm going to go back to being frustrated about different things than I was frustrated about when I was working at home.
Too, there were nice fringe benefits of working at home. I'm going to miss being able to bake stuff while I worked. I'm not sure that balanced out against the annoyance of having my work computer taking up half my dining room table and just generally not feeling like I had good separation between work and personal life, but it was nice.
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Date: 2020-06-29 09:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-07-06 01:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-07-06 02:52 pm (UTC)I spent a bunch of time this weekend reconfiguring my dining room post-WFH and it made me feel a lot more comfortable in my home, so that's something.