I moved my company out of our building in Pasadena and now we are all 90% remote and staying that way. We have a warehouse space in Valencia with a small office now. Each of my full timers helps cover that office, which for most of them works out to one 10 AM to 4 PM shift in the warehouse office every other week.

After over 20 years of having a physical office we dumped it altogether almost 10 years ago. Should have done so sooner! Yes, I still have to deal with too much stuff stored in my back room and attic, but that is just my avoidance of tossing out or donating stuff that my frugal self still thinks should have value. There is a certain social aspect to being at the office that I miss, but now that I am all vaxed I can visit my customer offices as much as I want to get that social fix. IP phones was the only thing we needed to make the jump.

We were pretty well positioned to go remote. Everyone was already on laptops since we used them on jobs sites. The staff is also used to long periods away from the office when projects take them out of town. Beyond that we had been using online collaboration tools like Slack and Asana already so the transition when pretty smoothly. We need the warehouse space for the gear, but now it is truly a warehouse space.

Apparently the CEO, who is in the northeast somewhere, is big on "face time."

Great that you can keep that model, Drew.

Good luck, Dana and Calli, on your returns.

I did my mock interview today - went great, and it was an hour and a half! Too bad it wasn't actually for the job. But it's been a while since I've done a real interview, so it was good... exercise.

Beautiful day here. I should go for a walk, but I'm wiped out, so instead, I'm watching Stowaway on Netflix and eating pasta. As you do.

Officially our blanket permission to WFH expires at the end of June, but I think most individual orgs will decide to continue allowing folks to work flexibly. My co-workers are spread across 5 cities in 3 continents so it's not as though working full time from the office would reduce the number of video conference calls we all have.

Timelies all!

I'm not sure how much more teleworking I'll be doing from now on, as the head of the lab wants all of us in the lab every day.(Not that I was doing much on the one telework day a week I got, as my job doesn't travel well)

Three more signs of Spring:

• the maple seeds are blowing around
• the apartment complex mowed the grass for the first tine this year
• I had to turn on the air conditioning

I've been working in the office one day a week in April, to be increased to M-W-F in May. Though I'm going to wait until the 2nd week of May so I'll have (nearly) 2 weeks after my 2nd vaxx shot. Everything coming down from corporate is about how they're going to "embrace" the new flexibility, but meanwhile my local site says M-W-F, no flexibility on hours (well, no, they'd let me come in earlier, but definitely no later). So, pretty typical - good catchphrases, little actual flexibility or accommodation. I'm trying to have a good attitude - I mean, before March 2020 I was never allowed to WFH in any way, so 2 days a week is pretty good. I guess I'm just a bit spoiled now. (No commute! No makeup! No shoes!)

I continue to work from home like usual. But I look forward to being able to work in cafes or cowork again! (I would totally go to the office a couple days a week if we had one)