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Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

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J.D. said:
Maybe, but you can put measures in place to track productivity. Reducing traffic/pollution/health debacles are good starting points for telecommuting.
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Metrics never work. People work to meet metrics not actual productivity.

Your other point is a compelling one.
 
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Slap Shot said:
When I lived and traveled around the region (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and UAE) for the better part of 1996 they had massive numbers of foreign national workers from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and The Philippines. But I know that Bahrain has had a sea change toward using Chinese labor as well.
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87% of the UAE population are foreign non-citizens from pretty much all the countries you mention, though I would also include Russia. When I was (briefly) there, I think I can count on one hand the number of times I interacted with an actual UAE citizen.
 
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One of my Facebook friends shared something that was just stating some confirmed numbers so far for Ohio.
First comment on it (I assume it’d a real person not a bot) is that thr only reason this is news is to create panic to hurt trump
 
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Ha I guess you would need to implement lofty metrics for people to meet! My company allows 2 days at home which is a nice balance. To be fair, I wouldn't even like working at home every day. But I do think more companies should introduce some form of telecommuting program.
 
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J.D. said:
Companies should have been pushing mass work from home years ago but for some it's taboo
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Well, that's a whole other topic worth discussing some other time. :)

Though, for people who work for defense companies, obviously there's stuff you can never work on from home.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
Well, that's a whole other topic worth discussing some other time. :)

Though, for people who work for defense companies, obviously there's stuff you can never work on from home.
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I just meant in general. There are a lot of positions that can be done from home that aren't. At least in my experiences.
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
Well, that's a whole other topic worth discussing some other time. :)

Though, for people who work for defense companies, obviously there's stuff you can never work on from home.
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A lot of people have to do actual testing to get their jobs done. I do- thankfully, I was not planning on any personal testing for 3 weeks, and just support other programs. But it will be interesting to see if any of those programs test, and I can process data and whatnot.
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
87% of the UAE population are foreign non-citizens from pretty much all the countries you mention, though I would also include Russia. When I was (briefly) there, I think I can count on one hand the number of times I interacted with an actual UAE citizen.
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emiraties are notorious for keeping to themselves. in the dubai mall they only keep to one section, the rest of the place for the common expats.

here at least they speak to us expats. mookie lives in a villa above the local owner. sweet man and wife.

we are 1/4 locals and 3/4 expats with filipinos, indians and egyptians. making up the majority who keep the country rolling along.
 
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J.D. said:
I just meant in general. There are a lot of positions that can be done from home that aren't. At least in my experiences.
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I know. And this topic is certainly an important one to have even without a crisis.

Now, for me personally -- and this is just me -- I know I make a terrible work from home employee. My productivity sucks. I get distracted too easily. Etc. Once in a rare moment I'll do it -- snowstorm, need to deal with something at home, not feeling well but don't need an all out sick day -- and though I acknowledge it's nice, I know I'm not working to the capacity a company expects of me. (Caveat -- there are a few tasks I'm better off working from home, like reviewing large documents or if I have to do a lot of report or document writing.)
 
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alfablue said:
A lot of people have to do actual testing to get their jobs done. I do- thankfully, I was not planning on any personal testing for 3 weeks, and just support other programs. But it will be interesting to see if any of those programs test, and I can process data and whatnot.
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My job is testing, too, so yeah, that's another reason for me.
 
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state of hockey said:
My work is putting work from home into place incrementally. The daycare our 1 year old goes to will be closing any moment. I'm wondering how I am going to work from home while trying to keep a 1 year old alive. Going to be interesting.
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Got two 5 year olds here. I put out a request for a giant hamster wheel that can fit both of them at the same time so I can get 5 minutes to get some work done.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
I know. And this topic is certainly an important one to have even without a crisis.

Now, for me personally -- and this is just me -- I know I make a terrible work from home employee. My productivity sucks. I get distracted too easily. Etc. Once in a rare moment I'll do it -- snowstorm, need to deal with something at home, not feeling well but don't need an all out sick day -- and though I acknowledge it's nice, I know I'm not working to the capacity a company expects of me. (Caveat -- there are a few tasks I'm better off working from home, like reviewing large documents or if I have to do a lot of report or document writing.)
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The way my company does it is probably the best mix. You get 2 days at home per week. And I admit, there are certain things I put off for "office" days buy at the end of each week, the work that needs to get done is done.
 
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mookie1995 said:
emiraties are notorious for keeping to themselves. in the dubai mall they only keep to one section, the rest of the place for the common expats.
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I know. But just interacting with people doing their normal jobs, because Emiraties don't do normal jobs, especially service jobs.
 
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J.D. said:
The way my company does it is probably the best mix. You get 2 days at home per week. And I admit, there are certain things I put off for "office" days buy at the end of each week, the work that needs to get done is done.
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My sister has that arrangement, and she really likes it and feels it is the best mix.
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
I know. But just interacting with people doing their normal jobs, because Emiraties don't do normal jobs, especially service jobs.
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It occurs to me that those tiny kingdoms are the first places that could pragmatically adopt Fully Automated* Luxury Gay Space Communism. Too bad they're all right wing theocratic dictatorships.

<img src="https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.577879126.9254/flat,550x550,075,f.jpg" height=300>

* Automation in this case would be Filipino slaves
 
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Kepler said:
It occurs to me that those tiny kingdoms are the first places that could pragmatically adopt Fully Automated* Luxury Gay Space Communism. Too bad they're all right wing theocratic dictatorships.

<img src="https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.577879126.9254/flat,550x550,075,f.jpg" height=300>

* Automation in this case would be Filipino slaves
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Well, there are a lot of Filipino prostitutes there. So, I heard....
 
MinnesotaNorthStar said:
Aaaaaaaand, there's the word. No details as of yet. **** me.
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I feel for you. I have some family at delta but they have over 20 years there now.

No doubt travel was always gonna take a big hit from a pandemic situation, but this euro ban is so dumb in the way it’s been constructed
 
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