>> Can you do all your work from home, how are you finding it? If you
>> don't mind me asking.
In theory, yes, our contracts are WFH based but we usually visit clients and get info then write reports at home. Clients have been really struggling to provide info - a piece of work that should have taken 2 days took almost 2 weeks as info comes in in small batches.
It has been difficult to focus on tasks when the info flow is so piecemeal.
>> Is something like that normal at your work? Only reason I ask as wfh is
>> still quite new at our place, for example we've got enough laptops for about 10%
>> of people to have one.
>>
>> Be interesting to see how those still in work on here are coping?
>>
We have a bank's budget for these things. For example a couple of years ago the IT security department realised that nearly all the IT contractors were using their own laptops and they were all sent home!
Over a weekend over 2000 laptops were sourced new, hard drives reformatted and encrypted and bank software loaded ready for Monday morning. (I understand that they even went to local stores to buy up stocks.)
We have a VPN in to the banks systems, with many thousands of licences and the number was increased by many multiples in March - but as more and more of the group work from home the system has struggled to the extent that it took an hour to upload a 15k text file.
So IT worked some magic a couple of weeks ago and all non-core systems are now cloud based including email and file storage. The speed is as fast as your internet connection can handle.
Core banking applications remain on the VPN and people that don't need them have been asked to avoid using them in core banking hours.
The quiz and virtual team meetings are new, as we work remotely we try to get to meet physically within our team and the wider division as regularly as possible to engender team spirit and working together / share best practice and have a laugh, few beers, some grub.
IT systems have been locked down even tighter though - there are absolutely no upgrades to existing software at the moment and even when not connected to the VPN the banks DNS is used, blocking many innocent sites such as newspaper crossword pages and forums!
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