Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Working from home
I am grateful to be working for PwC, a company with great leadership, interesting work and commitment to the employees and our clients. I am also grateful that my beloved husband is still able to go to work as a United Airlines mechanic. As we all learn to work from home including having meetings using video technologies there is a hesitancy to not use the video function. At first I did not really want to be seen on the video camera as it seemed awkward and intrusive. However, the more I tried using it, the more I enjoyed the connection, even more than in person meetings. I surmise that by peering into others' home offices we see the other as more human. I have see beautiful curated spaces that are clean, simple, elegant, comfortable and inviting. Several home offices display their childrens' art, others have musical instruments and still others have bookshelves filled with books to far from camera to actually see titles. As we all become more comfortable using video capabilities with colleagues and clients, it inspires a new way to work that has created a level of relationship that is truly more personal. Working from home also gives us more time to work and less time to be in traffic, maybe even less stress. Working from home also seems to inspire longer days as we hop on the computer early and have meetings that go back to back all day to evening. I am grateful that working from home also allows for us to make our lunch and eat with our families and maybe even get in a daily form of exercise. As we shelter in place and work from home, earth is getting her rest, skies are bluer, air seems cleaner and people seem calmer. We pray for those who are ill, for all who care for those who are ill and most of all for those who are lonely. I hope we return to connecting in person for all things personal and continue to work from home for that type of work that is possible.#returntowork
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It's true that the video function has pluses and minuses. I like Zoom much more than Conference Calls. You can see when someone might be trying to say something ("you're muted...) or just see as faces engage--or not.
Thanks always for your reflections.
These times are so complicated. Opportunities to choose how we will be present to our unique historical challenge.
And how to be compassionate.
For those of us who do so much of our work via computer, and can do a lot from wherever we are, who can keep jobs for that reason...a reminder that there are a lot of people out in the world whose jobs didn't translate into this alternative...
* those who are still working "on the front lines," very much exposed to the virus
* those whose employment and/or income is in jeopardy
As we look at the potential this crisis has to remake our world...there is hope for a cleaner, more caring future. But not everyone will get there with us...some will be lost along the way for all different reasons...disease or despair, still a loss...and we will mourn them even when we know that they have simply gone to the promise ahead of us.
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