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I've been loving the comfort of working from home (childless), but I suspect you're right that it's not going well for most people. Most of my zoom meetings are

I've been loving the comfort of working from home (childless), but I suspect you're right that it's not going well for most people. Most of my zoom meetings are disrupted by shrieks of needy children and a shocking number of cellphone ringing/notifications.

taneq 7y ago
No sane person actually works from home with their young kids present, at least not in any real job. Until schools have their remote classes sorted out with actual teachers giving actual attention to students over video, nobody's going to be getting any quality work done.
- closeparen 7y ago
  Every last parent on my team of 100 has at least one child under five, so not even then.
- avip 7y ago
  It is not possible to give "actual attention to students over video". There really is no such thing. Remote teaching does not, can not, and should not work for young kids. It's not a university. (source: life)
  - Kaiyou 7y ago
    It will work fine for all the INTPs and similar personality types. The rest is screwed.
    - deleted 7y ago
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    - mac01021 7y ago
      My preschooler is probably something like INTP. Teleconference learning is not working great for her so far.
      - Kaiyou 7y ago
        It's easy enough to test whether someone is an INTP with an online personality test. Basically INTPs will look like autists. They don't talk unless asked and dislike the company of other people.
  - taneq 7y ago
    I don't know whose young kids you're testing on (and they're all different so you're right for some of them!) but all the ones I've met are glued to a screen at every opportunity. They love video calls and talking on the phone and interacting with people via screen.
- hef19898 7y ago
  I would assume running a team of 12 people being the first time in there whole careers working from that is planning global production for a multi billion dollar business is a real job. As trying to get a bootstrapped startup of the ground. The first case is my wife, the second one me. We have two kids. For obvious reasons I had my office at home anyway. For two weeks bow it is WFH for both of us. Plus the kids at home. Tell you what, it works. Stress, sure. But it works.
  - mirimir 7y ago
    Just a couple days ago, I spoke with a patient rep for a medical practice in metro NYC. She was obviously working from home, with a young child yelling, and pressing buttons on the phone. And obviously tense. So I just said that I understood that she was working from home, and that everything was OK. And then everything was OK, and her child quieted down.
    - kyleee 7y ago
      Yep, I've been finding it comforting to talk about it (even briefly) to clear up some of the pressure. I think it's nice that you've done that and I appreciated it when someone brought it up similarly with me while on a call. It allowed me to relax a bit and refocus as opposed to just trying to ignore the interruptions and being anxious about it
      - hef19898 7y ago
        That's key, I think. Way before Corona, I worked for a tram at Amazon that ended up to have three parents of small children on it me included. Q4 calls were fun, there were times were the children started to talk yo each other. Our manager was ok with it. Performance was good, things got done and remote work went perfectly well. A different manager could have easily had the opposite effect so.
    - cerberusss 7y ago
      Well done, sir/ma'am. A little bit of understanding goes a long way.
m3kw9 7y ago
I’m surprised Zoom or any video conferencing system haven’t invented an AI algorithm that can only pass through your own voice and nothing else
- gbjw 7y ago
  https://krisp.ai https://krisp.ai

taneq 7y ago

No sane person actually works from home with their young kids present, at least not in any real job. Until schools have their remote classes sorted out with actual teachers giving actual attention to students over video, nobody's going to be getting any quality work done.

closeparen 7y ago
Every last parent on my team of 100 has at least one child under five, so not even then.
avip 7y ago
It is not possible to give "actual attention to students over video". There really is no such thing. Remote teaching does not, can not, and should not work for young kids. It's not a university. (source: life)
- Kaiyou 7y ago
  It will work fine for all the INTPs and similar personality types. The rest is screwed.
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]
  - mac01021 7y ago
    My preschooler is probably something like INTP. Teleconference learning is not working great for her so far.
    - Kaiyou 7y ago
      It's easy enough to test whether someone is an INTP with an online personality test. Basically INTPs will look like autists. They don't talk unless asked and dislike the company of other people.
- taneq 7y ago
  I don't know whose young kids you're testing on (and they're all different so you're right for some of them!) but all the ones I've met are glued to a screen at every opportunity. They love video calls and talking on the phone and interacting with people via screen.
hef19898 7y ago
I would assume running a team of 12 people being the first time in there whole careers working from that is planning global production for a multi billion dollar business is a real job. As trying to get a bootstrapped startup of the ground. The first case is my wife, the second one me. We have two kids. For obvious reasons I had my office at home anyway. For two weeks bow it is WFH for both of us. Plus the kids at home. Tell you what, it works. Stress, sure. But it works.
- mirimir 7y ago
  Just a couple days ago, I spoke with a patient rep for a medical practice in metro NYC. She was obviously working from home, with a young child yelling, and pressing buttons on the phone. And obviously tense. So I just said that I understood that she was working from home, and that everything was OK. And then everything was OK, and her child quieted down.
  - kyleee 7y ago
    Yep, I've been finding it comforting to talk about it (even briefly) to clear up some of the pressure. I think it's nice that you've done that and I appreciated it when someone brought it up similarly with me while on a call. It allowed me to relax a bit and refocus as opposed to just trying to ignore the interruptions and being anxious about it
    - hef19898 7y ago
      That's key, I think. Way before Corona, I worked for a tram at Amazon that ended up to have three parents of small children on it me included. Q4 calls were fun, there were times were the children started to talk yo each other. Our manager was ok with it. Performance was good, things got done and remote work went perfectly well. A different manager could have easily had the opposite effect so.
  - cerberusss 7y ago
    Well done, sir/ma'am. A little bit of understanding goes a long way.

m3kw9 7y ago

I’m surprised Zoom or any video conferencing system haven’t invented an AI algorithm that can only pass through your own voice and nothing else

gbjw 7y ago
https://krisp.ai https://krisp.ai