WFH groups

The_Ogre said:
The problem with me is I get bored easily and end up putting on the Xbox or doing some other thing that I find more interesting, especially when I look at my current workload and my next deadline is two weeks away and I know I can finish it in a couple of days.

When I see others around me busy, it motivates me to stop ****ing around and finish whatever has been assigned to me, regardless of how far in the future the deadline is.

A great percentage of my job is reactive in nature - i.e, I have work when something broke. So I suppose this kind of thing won't work for everybody who are in meetings 90% of the day.
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I can understand that and I do also find I get some tasks done much better when sitting in person with colleagues.

But that's with colleagues working together for the same goal and not random people just doing their own work.

During the more hardcore lockdowns I actually got budget to do @home days with my team where we'd buy some breakfast/lunch thing and make food in between working and then we'd rotate from one person's house to another.

Worked very well for planning sessions and just pushing some thing over the line while also maintaining camaraderie.
 
Some guys can’t sit with their own thoughts too long. Either need to drink, get high or preoccupy themselves with others. I just don’t get it, it’s “productivity time”.
 
WAslayer said:
It is not really a question of legality but, a question of breaching company policies and employment contract regarding confidentiality..

You sit on speaker in meetings, meaning they can hear everything being discussed, including whatever confidential topics may be covered..

Then you need to also stop them from shoulder surfing and reading off of your laptop/computer screens..
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Interesting question where does this end though? The housekeeper/garden engineer, the guy dropping off a delivery, the security gaurd walking by, the neighbour, the nosy lady down the road?
 
B-1 said:
Interesting question where does this end though? The housekeeper/garden engineer, the guy dropping off a delivery, the security gaurd walking by, the neighbour, the nosy lady down the road?
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Well, most those people wouldn't be around your immediate work area.. whatever happens, of your company has confidentiality policies and clauses etc, it ends with the employee to take required precautions, ie don't speak openly around non-employees about confidential work topics and if you step away from your laptop/work pc, lock it..
 
Smokey888 said:
I am of the opinion that you might be breaching company policies.

Surely there are confidential matters being discussed? Even if you sit with headphones on, they can still hear what you are answering.

This, anyway will not work for me.

Pretty much in meetings 85% of my day.
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That sounds awful.
 
I sort of understand why some people would want to do it, and I suppose it could work in some ways, especially if everyone involved is working for the same company.

If not - as others have pointed out, employers might feel there is a risk of breach of confidentiality.

If everyone present is working for different companies, you cannot talk shop, but then you also cannot talk about personal stuff, because you are on company time and suppose to be working...so if you cannot talk and everyone sits in silence, then it defeats the purpose in the first place.
 
The_Ogre said:
So recently myself and a couple of friends have decided to work together because we're all bored of sitting alone at home while working.

We all work for different companies.

It works quite well, except for meetings, because sometimes all three of us end up having meetings at the same time - and I for one, hate sitting for an hour with a headset on, so my meetings are always on speaker.

Anybody else doing this sort of thing? We were just talking about confidentiality and everything that goes with it - and whether this is actually legal. I mean, you won't invite some outsider to sit in in your meetings in the office.
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Where is my hectare plot?????
 
I thought about doing this but there will have to be a fixed number or it will turn into an office. It does get kind of boring spending most of my day alone in a room. It would be better to talk to some real people instead of bots on mybb during my lunch break.
 
randomcat said:
I thought about doing this but there will have to be a fixed number or it will turn into an office. It does get kind of boring spending most of my day alone in a room. It would be better to talk to some real people instead of bots on mybb during my lunch break.
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Even working at one colleague's house now and then makes a change i.e. just 2 people.
 
maumau said:
Even working at one colleague's house now and then makes a change i.e. just 2 people.
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The problem is I don't stay close to any of them (the ones that I know and like). We did discuss working from a coffee shop or restaurant once a week.
 
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