Isolation/working from home

AntrimMan wrote: At the risk of angering Trig, I have a random question. Anyone using a computer all day move from a mouse to a trackerball? Any good? Also, open to recommendations for ergonomic keyboards......

Claret Murph wrote: AntrimMan wrote: At the risk of angering Trig, I have a random question. Anyone using a computer all day move from a mouse to a trackerball? Any good? Also, open to recommendations for ergonomic keyboards......    Trackerball and ergonomic keyboards , i am honest when i say i haven't  clue what these are

At the risk of angering Trig, I have a random question.

Claret Murph wrote: AntrimMan wrote: ConorMac77 wrote: AntrimMan wrote: Screens an issue for me as I'm working from my folks house at the min. At my gaff in London I had 4 screens set up and was going ok. In the office I had 8. It's been an adjustment! What the fook do ye need 8 screens for?  2 Equities Risk systems, 1 Rates/ FX risk system, 2 spreadsheets, 2 Bloomberg and one for mails chats.  Seeing the same with Andy on the hours. Averaging 13 hour days at the min Monday to Friday. Hopefully can get that back down.    Friend of mine who works in Hedge funds said some of the traders he knows have 12 screens and he said it was close to impossible to do their job with less than 6

pre Madonna wrote: "Oh darling, don't for a moment think I am trying to come across as superior! Don't you know that some of my friends are in the arts! It's all so wonderfully bohemian."

Zinedine Kilbane 110 wrote: McG wrote: daithi wrote: Lads complaining about having to work whether it’s from home or both home and office since this started, spare a thought for people that have not got that luxury  Ah Daithi..... come on now. I dont think the lads are doing anything of that nature.  It's simply comparing wfh against office work, nothing more.  Yeah it’s the same as the mortgage / extension threads tbh. Nobody is stating ‘look at me, I have a house’.  Just posting what’s topical at the moment as there is nothing else to talk about. Next week it will be all about the squad and how many goals will we beat Serbia and Luxembourg by.

t_rAndy wrote: What is killing me about WFH is that everyone else in my company is the same and it really makes a cumulative difference that a lot of people are still sending emails at half 6 and 7 at night whereas in the past they would be shutting down at half 5 and making the commute home. So even if you choose not to work late yourself the night before, you are still coming into a lot more emails the next day, which take time to answer and you only have enough hours in the day and it all builds up. A lot more people working over the weekend too. I would say the leaders in my company have probably got comfortable with the productivity they are getting from people during covid I wonder what it will be like when it goes back to normal. Will they have gotten so comfortable that they are expecting the same level of productivity that people are still feeling under pressure to put similar hours in too.  I think it will be a tough transition back

I must say I like the flexible working. Get your 35 hours in whenever you want suits me. If there's a dry afternoon head out for a cycle then work late when it's raining. If you're ina  job that you can get on with your work yourself, I think that makes perfect sense. Take a morning off for a trip to the dentist or whatever, go to the gym before work and start at 10, then work a little later. I'm not for a second advocating working longer hours, just hours that suit you better.

nvidic wrote: This thread makes me very glad to be working for the public sector. Start at 8, log off at 4 and that's that.  Albeit even when I managed a small sales team, I was done at finishing time, used to get an awful sl*gging for it, life is too short to be wasting your free time on working.

Have to say I love working from home now, got 2 monitors sent out from the office and also collected a chair from the office last summer so have the perfect set up. No 3 hour round commute means more time to myself and getting up at close to 9 rather than 6.30/7am is great!