s/o commuting - how much of your job could you do at home?

[y4m]

Not how much does your company allow, but how much could you realistically do from home if your company allowed it - using online collaboration tools, conference calls, web meetings, other technology etc.  Obviously if you're a dentist or a waitress, it might be 0%.  But if you have a corporate job, maybe it's more than you think...Call centers are a good example--home agents are becoming more and more common now that there's good call center routing software for it.

Assuming you could work from home, would you want to?

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I can easily do 75%+ from home, because it's working with colleagues and clients on documents, webinars, etc.  The rest I do in person at client sites, or occasionally in quarterly meetings at our corporate headquarters.

[batsteph]

Now that I work for myself I do work mostly at home. I'm probably 90% at home and 10% away from home at meetings or events.

Before I left my last job, I couldn't have done anything from home. I was required to be either in the classroom or in House members' offices all day, except when I was out of town at district offices. I was a trainer, and I suppose we could have run classes remotely with the trainers presenting from home, but I don't think the clients would have responded well to that. People tend to feel more comfortable and well cared for with trainers who are physically present.

[Deleted]

95%? Although I'd be less productive because doing my work on Citrix is a PITA. I've worked here for 3 years and have come in to the office maybe 6 weekends when I HAD to come in. Every other time I've had to do weekend work, I've done it from home (we have no heat or AC here on weekends/after 6 pm, so I avoid this place like the plague at those times unless the weather is good).

[laurenpetro]

i could do about 5% of my work from home.

ETA:  and no, i wouldn't want to.

[Velar Fricative]

Maybe 30%. I manage staff whose jobs would be impossible to do at home (though maybe that will change in the distant future), so I need to be there most of the time to effectively manage them and the department. But I also do quite a bit of administrative work that can be done at home.

[savan]

I already work from home 100% and have for almost 6 years. There are some things that I can't do, like walk over to our lab and watch things in person, but I get help from on site coworkers for that. It also helps that my company has an office close by (not the one I technically work out of) so I can use their IT services if necessary.

[sushi]

Whenever our building is closed, which it is for any state or federal holiday, I work from home. However, what I can do at home is only a fraction my job. Basically I get paid to watch TV on those days

[pixy0stix]

25% ish

[luckyval]

I couldn't work at home at all with my current job

At previous job, after my son was born, my employer was very gracious and let me work from home 2 1/2 days a week. I actually worked almost completely from home when he was between 6 wks and 12 wks old since I had very little time off with him. The job paid poorly, but thy were extremely accommodating to me as the only young parent there.

[mominatrix]

the work I was doing before I left work...
probably 33% I'd need to be in 'the field' (going to sites to investigate, etc)
probably 50-70% at home (writing, fielding calls and emails, research)
probably 10-20% in the office (meeting with parties, conferring with colleagues)

[wawa]

at least 85% if not more.  I'd have to attend meetings in person (roughly 1 a week on average) and occasionally come in just for ease of collaboration with coworkers, but otherwise I can do my entire job remotely. 

When they did an overhaul of our computer systems I asked for, and received, a laptop and the ability to remote in from anywhere so that I can work from home during crunch times since I can't stay past daycare pickup time anymore.

If I wanted to go to a part-time telecommute schedule I probably could...corporate is supportive in general, but it's handled on a case-by-case basis with department heads for technical staff.  My commute is only 15 minutes though, so I haven't made the request.  That and some of the people I work with from other departments suck at communication - the only way to get a timely answer from them is to just pop my head into their office so that would get old.

[NitaX]

Probably 90%. I mean really, I don't NEED to be in the office.Outside of coming in for meetings, there's no reason I couldn't work from home. 

But, then I really don't want to do that because my H works from home a few days a week, and while I love him dearly, I can't be in your face like that all day. 

[Deleted]

I guess it depends lol. I mean, I COULD skype all of my lessons from home. But realistically that would be a disaster.

[doctordonna]

I'm currently working 3 days/week at home and 2 days/week at the office. I could do 100% of my job at home. The firm I work for is slowly going 100% virtual, so by this time next year I'll be working at home full time.

[iammalcolmx]

30%, I do a lot of administrative stuff which requires me being in the office.

[eclaires]

ALL of it, lol!

Anyway, my husband used to be able to work from home almost all of the time, but with some of his new projects, he has to be actually in the lab doing the testing a lot more. He also has to have more interaction with his co-workers on his current projects. When Scarlett was a baby, he worked from home like 90% of the time. Now he doesn't really work from home much at all, except for when he's working in the evenings. That's usually because he has stuff to catch up on or a deadline.

[ESF]

Nearly all of it, except for obviously court appearances, depositions, mediations, etc. I probably average 10% of my time out of the "office" on any given month, but it varies. Everything else can be done right here. I do my best brief-writing in coffee shops. It's glorious. I have no idea how I'm going to adjust when I find a new job, since there's no way I'll be able to WFH in any sort of meaningful amount.

[sushi]

My poor h could probably do most of his job at home IF it weren't for the secret squirrel stuff. He has to access that from work, and it's most of his job. Otherwise, he mostly works on his own and goes to virtual meetings (which, again, have to be done from work die to secret squirrel).

[msmerymac]

I do work from home. I used to work in an office and my husband got a job out of state, so I proposed telecommuting and they went for it. I've been doing it for about 9 months. Most people at my office/in my industry could work from home, and at some companies, almost everyone does. Some people like it better than others and in my office I have coworkers who have worked from home and dislike it. I have other coworkers who work from home once a week, or just occasionally as needed.

I do document review and content development for an online marketing company. Other people in my office work in sales/biz dev, web design, coding and CS. I have email, phone, and an instant messenger program we use to communicate. I have email and messenger on my phone, too, in case I step away from my desk. I call in for a meeting with about half the staff once a week and I video skype a weekly meeting with my direct supervisor once a week. The only semi-annoying part is that I live in EST and keep PST hours, but it has its perks, too.

There were a few things we tweaked about my position in order to not have anyone need to pick up the slack for me in the office. There were one or two minor tasks I used to take care of that I can't from out of the office. But for the most part, it's been perfectly fine. As far as I know, my coworkers got used to it, and are happy with my turn around time, etc.

[demandypants]

i could do it all from home, but for certain meetings much prefer being in the office. I typically work 2/5ths of my week from home. sometimes more. My husband works from home always (sales) unless he is traveling. In my previous role there was no value being in the office. Everyone I worked with was in another city anyway. So in person communication just wasn't a thing I was missing by being home. I was home more then. I very much appreciate the flexibility to WFH.

[pinkdutchtulips]

about 75% could be done from home ... but i wouldn't want to work from home.

[redheadbaker]

100%. In fact, many associates who do the same job as me do WFH all the time, but I'm just a contractor (which is a whole other rant, as the company is skirting labor laws regarding temporary workers), so I get to commute 70 miles a day.

I have worked from home full-time in the past and loved it.

I'm mobile and miss my physical keyboard!

[pamela]

Of what I end up doing, 95% can be done at home. I do have to do classroom evaluations and should do more of them, but the time just isn't there. And once a year teach a week of continuing training. Otherwise, a lot of material reviews, lesson plan development and report writing that can all be done at home. The only time being here is beneficial for that are days like today where I'm about to go camp out in the offices of some of my management and make them focus so they will get me a product I need today (that they each promised last week I'd have by the time I got here this morning).

[gretchenindisguise]

Zero.

Which is really nice, because it means I can't bring work home. As soon as I step out the door in the afternoon, I'm done.

[rosiedozie]

I do 100% of my job from home several states from the corporate office. I have to travel there once every two or three months to get some face to face time and then occasionally for conferences or events.

[madisen]

Probably about 70%. I have a work laptop with a vpn connection at home to do EXTRA work or catch up though. *cry*

[lasagnasshole]

Almost all of it, if I had a secure connection.

We are allowed to WFH 2 days per week once we've been here 2 years, so I have another year to go. I think the duration requirement makes sense, as it's easier to get help with things I don't understand while in the office. Unfortunately, our process is inefficient - load certain work you'll do onto your laptop, and when you return, you have to transfer the work from the laptop to the regular network. It would be much more efficient to just have a secure way to connect to our network.

[meshaliuknits]

Probably around 90%. Most of my meetings are already web based since the system I support is used every where in North America + part of Germany. Most of my job requires a computer and a solid internet connection. One of which I don't always get at the office anyway.


ETA: I could probably work from home occasionally if I asked, but I like to save up my work from home good will for care of ill children and being completely unable to stay late any more.

[StrawberryBlondie]

I could basically 100% of my job from home. Except the monthly team meetings.

I am allowed to do 0% of my job from home.

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[EllieT]

Zero. Unless I bring our residents home with me (work in a nursing home)