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My dad is an electrical engineer. Their company is about 100 employees and, over the last week, they have had to shift all of them to a remote setup. It hasn't
by cddotdotslash 7y ago
My dad is an electrical engineer. Their company is about 100 employees and, over the last week, they have had to shift all of them to a remote setup. It hasn't been easy at all. He mentioned numerous issues:
1. A lot of their work is marking up drawings which traditionally have been printed on massive sheets of paper. Online, it's hard to click, zoom, markup, zoom out, etc. Not impossible, but much harder.
2. These files can be GBs in size. Imagine waiting 45 minutes for a file to download, you add two comments, and then it takes another hour to upload back to the server where another engineer repeats the process.
3. Many of their employees live in remote areas where bandwidth measured in kbps, not mbps.
4. Some employees don't have full-sized monitors or even laptops at home. Some only have tablets.
5. Hardly any of the employees have ever used Zoom, so that alone is a huge learning curve for them to download/install/get a webcam setup/etc.
6. The VPN they had was not configured to handle the amount of bandwidth now being pushed through it. Their provider had to send technicians out to the office multiple times.