QOTW: Are you able to work from home?

[IAmATeaf]

I work in boring old IT and I’ve been working from home for ages. Have VPN access to corporate and UMI access to any customers accounts I’m working on.

[LSG501]

Yep... already do as a freelancer.

Issue isn't so much the working from home for me it's communication with clients if they 'forget' to tell me their new contact details if they can't be at 'work' lol. That and imo trying to do my type of work over video conferencing just doesn't work that well.

So essentially I can still work, it's just taking longer than usual or needs 'delaying' due to lack of communication. Neither is great from a bank balance stand point but still better than my situation if I can't work if I catch anything and can't work.

[g8ina]

Im retired but when I was working, yes, electronic sales was pretty easy working mostly from home, needed the odd visit.

Sally on the other hand is a care worker in a residential home for adults with acquired brain injuries, so not a chance.

[spolsh]

Kinda doubt it .. like everyone else who works in a factory, I gotta go to it, it can't come to me.

[Euphonium]

There's no practical way I could work from home. While it's theoretically possible to use spare and/or portable equipment to set up an analytical laboratory in my garage and meet the required quality and safety standards, the time and costs involved would be prohibitive and I'd still need to travel at least once a week to collect samples.

[Mr. Q]

Would love to, but unfortunately theres no real way of doing so for me. I'm hoping for less morning traffic at-least.

[TonyBee]

As I open up the buildings for everyone else to work, maybe not!
If they all work from home then I won't need to be getting up at dawn :-) but as they provide essential services for the whole county, the chances of that are nil :-(
At least the roads are quiet on my way in and will be quieter on my way home, especially if they shut the schools. No badly parked cars whilst picking up Frogmella et al.

[hellig]

Cnc turning, show me how to do that from home

[ik9000]

Cnc turning, show me how to do that from home

depends what you have in a garage. I genuinely know someone with just that capability!!! (not me before anyone asks me for a favour!)

[mojothejester]

Nope. I deliver fresh food to Asda stores

[pumpkin]

Yes, already work one day a week from home. But I'm a Software Engineer (Programmer) so have more flexibility.
Friday, just gone, the entire officed worked from home to ensure that the VPN could cope.

[Singh400]

Yep.

[chj]

Unfortunately not, i'll be spending more time in work testing corona samples!

[Wh00pS]

Nope for me, i renovate houses for a living.

[judge56988]

Shouldn't the question be put differently... "if you spend the day working on a computer in an office, could you work from home?" because obviously there are loads of jobs where the nature of the work makes it impossible - as many people have pointed out.

[Percy1983]

As a photographer yes and no. I have a few jobs to process (on the big pc) but work is slowing down oiut oif fear rather than anything else.