A day of telework

This week I had the opportunity to telework, or as it is often called, "work from home". It was one day out of the week.

My experience with telework was, overall, positive. I was able to connect to the systems in the office (I keep wanting to use the phrase "dial in", but there is no dialing involved) and run the needed programs.

My chair at home is much less comfortable that the chair in the office. I found that had to stand and stretch every thirty minutes, somewhat more frequently than when I am in the office.

My monitor at home is smaller (in terms of resolution) than the monitors in the office. The remote-access programs run in a browser and assume that your display is as large as the displays in the office. When they are smaller (as mine is) you get scroll bars. The programs I used (Microsoft Visual Studio, the DOS command prompt, and MS-Outlook) wanted windows larger than my home monitor. I could resize them, but only the DOS prompt resized gracefully. Outlook and Visual Studio are designed for large displays, and I found myself scrolling.

Performance was acceptable. My work involves little in the way of graphic manipulation; almost everything I do is in text mode.

I expect telework to be a rare occurrence. Should it become frequent, I will invest in a better monitor and chair.