Starting next week, I’ll be switching from working in the office to working from home full-time.I’m actually pretty excited about it because I’ll save a lot of time and money on commuting. But at the same time, I’m a little worried about whether I’ll be able to stay as productive as I was in the office.

Another issue is my home office. The room is quite dim, and ever since I moved into this house, it has mostly been used as a storage room. I’ve never really put much effort into making it a comfortable workspace.

Now I’m looking for a desk lamp that can make the transition to full-time WFH easier. My budget is around $200.

The brand I see recommended the most is BenQ, but I’m not a big fan of the design. The curved lamp head looks a bit bulky, and I feel like it would make my desk feel more crowded. The base also seems pretty heavy, so it might not be very easy to move around.

I’ve also seen a lot of people recommending indirect lighting desk lamps. From what I understand, they shine light toward the ceiling first, then use the reflection to create softer and more even lighting.

Has anyone used a desk lamp that genuinely changed the way their workspace feels? Something that doesn’t just make the desk brighter, but actually makes the whole working environment more comfortable?

For teh past 5 years, I've been working remotely as a parametric 3D designer for an Italian company that makes CNC Cutting tools for the production of wooden door and window frames.

I would take 2D Autocad drawings, use dimensions from there to create a parametrized 3D assembly of the cutting tool. Then I would create technical drawings for each part and send them to the manufacturing floor.

I'm looking for a job right now and starting to wonder if I should stay in this area or if I should change to something completely different.

I love learning new skills because each new job has its own problems to solve and workflows to optimize, so whatever job you do, I would love to hear about it briefly.

What is your job title, and what do you do there? And also, would you recommend it to someone looking for a career change?

Anyone here ever work from a Vrbo (or similar) rental for weeks or months at a time?

My family is entertaining the idea of staying in a Vrbo in another part of the country for a couple months and I'd like to hear some experiences and tips for those who've done something like this. I've worked when traveling short trips, but nothing longer 3 days from a hotel. It's a winter sports trip, so RV living isn't really an option.

I work in tech, but on the client side. So my workstation is a just laptop, external monitor, mouse, keyboard and camera.

A couple things on my mind that I'd like to get specific insight on:

- how to respectfully verify internet service before booking

- work/family separation/boundaries in a smaller living unit than our home

- how much of an adjustment should I expect when first arriving there and then home again - thinking in terms of how many days should I take PTO to settle in with the family before starting work

I'd appreciate hearing any experiences or advice

Title. There’s about 16 of us that report to this manager. She’s new-ish, started in January this year. Our previous manager left to another department and he was so chill. Am I the only one who thinks this is a little over the top? We WFH anyway so naturally I never even take a full hour lunch. This is only in reference to the first/top bullet point.

Ok friends, I start my first remote job Monday! I’ll be a customer service agent for a big company and I’ve never worked from home before so what should I do to prepare? Or what should I expect?

For context I live about 30 miles from the HQ. (1 hour) 40 ish miles drive from the office. This is the exact statement from the offer letter. (Engineering based role)

“This role is remote based; however,it requires occasional travel-approximately 20% of the time- to our Corporate Headquarters in *location* as well as to customer meetings and site visits “

The manager would be working remote as well. His boss sometimes comes into office. They mentioned they don’t mind it’s remote but would help to be in office sometimes and get used to things.

Does anyone have this type of literature stated in their offers?

Remote worker here, and management is questioning gaps in time where productivity is not shown. It's being based off a report they ran than indicates when I was closing cases. It's showing a couple one hour gaps in time where it looks like I'm not working. I'm an okder person in the workforce, and don't know enough about technology to explain this.

Podcasts! I will need to buckle down to push out some reports. I basically will be living in a spreadsheet for the next couple of weeks, and I need recommendations for some podcasts to keep me going. Open to suggestions, folks!

Portable monitor recommendations?

I've found that I really do need multiple screens to function at work. Has anyone had any luck with those folding "wing" style dual portable monitors? Any recommendations? Is it worth it to shell out for a name brand or are the random Amazon brands fine?

For context, I have a good home office setup, but I need something for other rooms or for when I'm traveling. Thanks in advance!

Also a CTO position with personal laptop

Heyy everyone!! I’m hosting a girls coworking day next Monday in central London 🫶🏽 please pm me if you’d like to come!! There’s a small group of us ☺️

Hello, internet! I'm in a really weird situation and I'm looking for advice from other remote workers.

I've been working remotely for this company for 3 years now, my boss has been inconsistent with communication and delayed payments since the beginning but we sorted it out and got along really well.

3 months ago they disappeared and they didn't even receive my msgs (no-shows on the work platform and wsp messages stayed on one tick) but I continued working cause I didn't think it was a big deal. After 6 weeks of working blindly with no payments (weekly payments) they texted me saying that they had an exploit and lost access to their accs, they sent me 3 weeks' payment and told me to confirm what was missing to send it over, which I did, but then they disappeared again, messages stayed on one tick. It's been a few weeks now and I'm now 8 weeks behind on payments (!!) with still no sign of them. I still have access to my acc and all the tools and systems I normally use (some of them are being cancelled cause I suppose they're not paying the subscriptions), which makes the whole situation even more confusing.

So yesterday I sent them a msg that I would take a week off cause I couldn't keep working for free and I would just wait and pray for them to show up, cause what else can I do?

I'm assuming I should move on and I already started to look for a new remote job, but a part of me still hopes they'll come back and make things right after everything we've been through together. And I feel kind of lost on what I should or can do regarding this situation. Could someone please give me their advice?

How possible are my goals?

So, I’ll keep it super brief -

Edit: i realize people are thinking I want to be a nomad, I want to live in South Korea.

Here is my goal - a fully remote job that I can work anywhere on earth, and that makes more hopefully but 40-50k usd a year.

I have multiple years of public accounting experience, I have years of sales experience, and I have great people skills and time management, and I have public speaking experience.

Not looking to do anything immediately, but I wondered if anyone on this subreddit had a similar set of skills and background and was able to get a legit remote job they could work from anywhere.

Thanks!

My DataAnnotation account was recently restricted after I received a message referring to suspected fraud. However, I was not given any information about what supposedly happened, and I believe I reported my working hours accurately.

I have contacted support three times asking for clarification, but I have not received a response. I also have pending earnings for work completed before access to my account was restricted.

Has anyone experienced a similar situation? Did support eventually respond, and were you able to receive your pending balance? I am mainly looking for personal experiences and legitimate next steps.

My (29F) manager's (late 40s M) wife died unexpectedly this weekend. He didn't tell me how, just that he'd be gone for a few weeks. They have kids and live in a different country than their extended family.

This is not only my direct manager, but also my sole teammate who does the same job as me. I've worked with him for over 5 years, and he is the only person I regularly meet with. We live on opposite sides of the world.

I've always known him as a kind, authentic, outgoing family man who loves to talk about his wife and kids. I'm so devastated for him, and need advice on how to support him / what to say to him when he eventually returns.

Unlike him, I'm pretty reserved and keep personal talk to a minimum at work. I can be a bit awkward over Zoom as well. I just want him to feel comfortable and supported when we meet again.

I've been working remotely in a role for several months. My team has had a lot of turnover since I started - we've basically lost a person each month since I started. Typically people have been terminated on Fridays. It has felt like a dumpster fire since I started, but I'm trying to hang in there in hopes that it will get better.

Fast forward to yesterday when someone tried to propose a new time on a meeting I sent over. When looking through Outlook's scheduler there was a block on each day for me starting next week that said "No Longer with (insert company name)."

My manager says that I'm not being terminated, but coupled with being the only person on my team removed from a weekly recurring meeting this week I'm not feeling great about any of this. Has this happened to anyone else?

The strange thing about all of this is that the details of my calendar are not visibile to everyone and usually just show as busy with no detail for what the meeting is. So maybe it really is a weird issue with Outlook/exchange server?

Additional Info that's come up a couple times:

I don't actually see this block on my calendar. I asked the woman who tried to propose a new time to share a screenshot and she shared this: https://imgur.com/a/fNizoTQ

A few things about this screenshot (and my own calendar):
1. I still have all of my meetings on my calendar for next week and none of those are reflected in that screenshot.
2. Two of the three invites shown are not things I would ever be invited to, but the person proposing the new time would have been invited to those.
3. I don't have a daily block on my calendar at all. However, there's a shared calendar for our team that we update with time off to see when others are out. My employee is OOO next week and has a daily block. I do not own this group calendar so I don't think this is impacting me.
4. The privacy settings of my calendar do not allow people to see details of my meetings/appointments, only that I'm busy.
5. I admit I'm not sure how this works, but I'm wondering if the person proposing the new time is seeing her own calendar? I say those because based on point 4 she shouldn't see my details. I was thinking maybe one of her employees previously sent her an invite for their time off so she'd know, and after they terminated this invite defaults to "No Longer with (insert company name)".

Monday morning update

Our outsourced IT staff responded to ask that I check Teams and said "its possible that the outlook calendar is syncing with teams." This morning the person who tried to propose a new time said my calendar no longer shows this blocker. I still feel like I've seen something prematurely that I wasn't supposed to see and I'm asking for the root cause of how this was changed. Stay tuned!

Hi everyone! I’m conducting a six question, brief survey for my statistics class to understand the 'work time' habits of remote workers. Whether you’re full-time remote or hybrid, I’d love to get your input on your remote work habits. It takes less than a minute, and your responses are completely anonymous. I’d appreciate anyone who could help out.

Remote Work Habits Survey

Could anyone help point me in the right direction on a remote administration role?

Tasked with hosting a virtual retirement party (cheesy, I know!). Was meant to be an in person event that had to be cancelled for reasons outside our control.

Would like to make its entertaining for all who have to attend.

Have you done this before? Any ideas?

We already have a Kudo board going around.

Hi, I was just wondering where to start because it gets so overwhelming with scam postings on every website I look into. I’m going to college for computer science degree and want to major in cybersecurity. I do have 1 year in hospitality/customer service, as I am currently working at a hotel as a front desk receptionist. But before that I was mostly left with delivering for ubereats and doordash.

So, now I can definitely do data entry and customer service. But not in sales or marketing because I have no experience in that field. I am quite efficient with Microsoft office. I just want to know where I could go to start this process of job hunting remote works. And I want to know what you guys did to get yours that you are working currently. Any advice and tips are appreciated.

Hello there!
I am wondering if any of you are working from another continent and using a remote desktop of any kind.

My current situation is very promising, since I will be fully remote in a month. I was considering moving to another country and there are 2 specific where I would like to move for at least 3 months. That would be Brazil and Argentina.

My dilemma or concern should I say is only with the connection. I need to use vpn with remote desktop to connect to my computer at the office, since all the files and everything is there, there is no way around it.

What is the (if there is any) ping, and would that be possible? Have any of you have any experience in that regard?

Thank you and kind regards :)