Working Remote

[Horace]

Glad I started remote work after I was already on a glide pattern towards retirement. It would have been impossible to integrate into the company to any extent, if I'd started this way.

[Mik]

I don't know. That article had a predetermined result. Remote work works great for me. But then I've worked remote off and on for 40 years. State of SC is trying to make everyone come back but it will fail.

[jon-nyc]

@Mik You working a project with someone in SC?

[Mik]

For the last 3 years

[Mik]

I'm exempt because I'm more than 50 miles away. Several of my team members are not. A one size fits all policy like that statewide is bound to fail and have exemptions. Especially with Epic folks who can find another remote job in a heartbeat.

[jon-nyc]

@Mik said in Working Remote:

For the last 3 years

I work with MUSC. A guy there is the co-lead of the Columbia-centered grant we lost and then got restored.

[Mik]

Who is that? I work with the research team.

[Mik]

Must be Strange. I have not met him.

[jon-nyc]

Yep. He’s here in London with me (I assume haven’t seen him just yet) and was in DC with me last month. I see him and his staff every Monday on a call.

[Mik]

Do you know Diaz, Lennert, Graboye or Obeid?

[jon-nyc]

Nope. Charlie is the guy I deal with.

In December I’ll be down there for a patient education day.

[taiwan_girl]

@Mik said in Working Remote:

I've worked remote off and on for 40 years.

I think this is the key. I think remote working REALLY hurts people starting out or still quite early in their careers.

[Mik]

I was quite early when I started. The key is to be reachable and responsive. If you don’t hear back from me within a day you can be sure I’m in jail, hospital or lying in a ditch somewhere.