If you had to, COULD you work from home?

[jmowreader]

That’s one of the guidelines: work from home if you can. But could you?

I couldn’t because my equipment is too big, but I’ve got the next best thing: I’m the only person working in my shop. I get jobs over the corporate network (the people who drop them in there CAN work from home), print them and take them downstairs to the shipping desk.

[HotTeaBag]

1. I am for now but I'm on a contract and I'm sure that this will probably be my last week

I do video work for a gigantic commercial real estate company and I have a project and a half that I'm working on but once they're done, so am I most likely.

I'm probably going to try to become one of the 100,000 new Amazon employees if there are any jobs left.

[Tree-Hugger]

2. No

I am a gymnastics coach and dance instructor. I can't do my job at home. A lot of coaches and dance teachers are providing some online classes. I live in a tiny apartment and do not have the space to do so. I also work for a huge corporation that doesn't allow for that kind of independence outside of their ideals - if that makes sense. I'm not getting paid for my time off.

[Ms. Toad]

3. Have to, can. n/t

[ScratchCat]

4. Nope

I work in real estate. My job IS going to other people's homes and businesses. Several friends do the same thing. Another owns three barber shops. Nobody is closing up and intentionally going out of business over this.

[CottonBear]

5. No.

I work outdoors with plants.

[underpants]

6. Found out this morning we're telecommuting for a month

No access to shared files so I’m saving everything to my laptops internal memory and thumb drives.

Other than scanning documents I should be okay. ....if our WiFi holds up. My daughter is home for two weeks but still doing assignments via her laptop. My wife hasn’t heard what her company is doing.

[RobinA]

7. Can't

mental health care in a hospital. I COULD work less than 5 days a week and get the essential-for-the-patients stuff done. Two half days and a full day would do it since we aren't admitting or discharging anyone and I stopped 1:1 meetings for the duration. Never happen, but if they were serious...

[Maru Kitteh]

8. No. I'm an RN.

So, yeah. I'm super screwed. Oh and my patients are elderly. And I have HTN/diabetes. And my facility does not have any N-95s.

[Maeve]

19. Thank you for what you do!

It's not an easy job at the best of times and these ain't them

[LonePirate]

9. Yes. I have been working from home since yesterday; but I have an IT job that makes this easy.

[MissB]

10. Yes

Absolutely. It’s actually encouraged

[Ace Rothstein]

11. I already work from home full-time.

But I understand A LOT of people don't have that option.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

12. The norm for me is to work from home

I work in IT (design, programming, support).

[Kablooie]

13. That's exactly the point.

They are lowering risk of infection for themselves and for you since you aren't interacting with others.

[gldstwmn]

14. I'm already a remote worker and

thanking my lucky stars for that.

[shanti]

15. At my old job

before retirement, I would not have been able to work from home, as I needed confidential files that could not be removed from the premises, as part of my job.

[Javaman]

16. luckily yes. I know many can't :( nt

[Maeve]

17. Hubby, yes. Me, no

Storytelling on-line just isn't the same. Neither is it possible to interpret the 1890's via computer.

[redstatebluegirl]

18. I am for now, most of my work is computer based.

Because my husband and I both must work from home using the net, we had to upgrade our connection at a cost of another $50 a month. I'm sure AT&T is pleased.

[Tink41]

20. No

Then again I lost my job almost 2 months ago due to the virus anyway. International Trade Shows