Typically after the trip to London, and the few days of partying in a row, I ended my weekend a little run down and picked up a bug of some description. Because of this I’ve spent the last few days feeling a bit crappy and working from home instead of dragging myself into the office. It’s given me a slight insight into what I need to do for a Mobility project I’m beginning to develop in my new role at work. So far over the last few days I’ve seen what works, and what could be made better. I’ve yet to hit a specific problem I know exists so I can’t be sure how that fault is occurring.
As I’m a little under the weather I’m not really doing the same amount of work I’d be doing if I worked from home on a normal day. My head is just a little too fuzzy to completely focus on anything major. So it could be I’m not seeing a few of the problems because the sustained volume of work isn’t happening. Then there might be the simple fact that I work very differently from a lot of the staff who have reported the problem. I don’t think it’s something I’m going to figure out today anyway.
Once I’m fully up and running in my new role I think I need to have a few meetings with people, who tend to work remotely, and get all of their individual issues with the current setup logged. Then spend a solid week, where I’m not ill, working from home and see if I can replicate any of those issues. The long term goal of this is obviously to be able to work from anywhere on most days of the week, and only really go into the office when I physically have to.
Hopefully that’s something I’m going to be able to make happen in my new role away from support.
