How many of you work from home? And if you do, is there an office by you that you could go into if you wanted to? They are closing the last location in my state. I’ve worked from home for over 7 years but would go in once in awhile for meetings.
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In India WFH means - Work For Home
I work from home. The nearest office is about 100 miles. Its the office I'm assigned to as a mobile worker. I have never been there though.
I work from home and usually put in 8+ hours of productive work, but this week I said f-- it. It's already hurry up and then wait. I am on a self imposed work slow down because I am sick of no raises, no bonus, and of late no meetings with direction from new management. The Org structure is changing and the only news we get is 3 levels or more above us. I want to know where I am in the new org, how my roles are changing, what new processes with be in place
Guess I'll follow process and not work till I have a PPMC and a EBS code to charge too
I worked from home and customer site with no problems until the directive came out that everyone should be in the office. My manger would ask way i wasn't in the office even when i was at the customer site and make a big deal of me not being in. Then they shut down my office and made me redundant due to "relocation" of my role. (though i was home based and worked on a customer site) - anyway all god now with new job and pay increase. Crazy place.
You won't be working from anywhere, if you don't go find a real job soon.
Used to go to the office daily even with the pain that driving there implied at that moment, now that all my friends are gone and with my new account team located mostly in India I work from home 100% of the time since mid October 2018
I've worked from home 99% of the time for about 10 years now. We had an HP, then HPE, then DXC office downtown but it's been closed for a year, so there isn't even that place to go to. When I did, it was mainly for a change of routine and to get some better lunchtime dining choices. :) As for "collaboration," it was nice to get to know a few people and chat with them occasionally, but their jobs had nothing to do with mine. There were a couple of entire groups that worked there in permanent cubicles but also a lot of "free address cube" users who hauled their office essentials with them into the office daily and worked at any available "free address" desk. Nothing I worked on there ever involved any other human coming in to work with me on that site. My home office lets me be maximally productive and collaborative. I've been told I'm just as accessible and reachable as if I were in the office...probably more so with Skype, Outlook, SharePoint, and soon with Teams.
I work from home and there is an office in the city. Everyone on my account are located elsewhere so I don’t bother going in any more. I haven’t in years.
Any day I go into the office I leave in a bad mood. For my sanity I work from home mostly.
I was encouraged to work from home after CSC closed my local office to save on the property budget 6 years ago. I am now being WFRed because I am home-based and expect to exit at the end of March. Many of my colleagues work out of an office 40 minutes away, but I have been told that to keep my job I would have to move to an RDC office which is a 2 hour drive each way. Doesn't say much for DXC's commitment to the digital workplace, or for that matter its green credentials or concern for employees' work/life balance. I will be so glad to get out.
I work from home and cover up my webcam so nobody can see that I am in pajamas or scruffy t-shirt and ripped pants. I can walk around without a shirt on and nobody at DXC cares. On Thursday I was relaxing with feet up on the lounge while superiors were banging on about some BS in a meeting (wireless headset connected).
@XZazxan-svt - It is called control. Everyone on my account except my department (12 people) and our sister department (about 14 people) are FORBIDDEN from working from home. Although this of course does not apply to management! There is absolutely no reason for us to be leasing space when we could all easily work from home. But, of course, we are low-man on the totem pole and looked down on by all the other departments so we are not allowed to work from home.
In USA, in big cities hardly anyone, in IT at-least, goes to work in HPI, HPE or DXC atleast. Most go twice a week for 2-3 hours each.
No reason in the digital age to have a office. We can and all should work from home. We are digital company and have digital transformation centers, how ridiculous is that.
They are closing an office here, too. It's a 1 hour drive to the new office. I will work from home at that point and slowly look for another job elsewhere.
What state are you in there's no business in your state so there's no reason for you to work for this company move on
Yes, I work from home. And yes, there is an office I could go to..I’ve only been to the office five times in the past two years.