Well, I've worked from home continuously for the past 23 years and for half the 20 years before that. And, like Alan, I never saw an open-plan office when I was working for someone else.
Wil has mostly worked in cubicles, but the company he currently works for bought out his company's previous owner, and with great pomp and circumstance they moved everyone into a brand new building with a very open office space plan. Wil hates it. Many of them spend a lot of time on the phone and they're sitting within spitting distance from one another. Well, not currently, of course, because they're working from home. They had been in the new digs just a few months when COVID-19 hit. No one misses the office. And I do not see how the newfangled space is workable given the need for separation. It's pretty funny, really! I think they will have to reimagine the space and it may give some of them the license to work nearly completely from home. Wil would love that!
VT Gov Scott announced today that in addition to schools opening, team sports will happen. They are assessing some changes to contact sports. He says that if Vermont can't do it, no one can. So I guess we're the test case?
OHIO: As of Friday afternoon, there have been at least 98,675 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 3,652 deaths, and 11,447 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
I sure don't see how this aids Trump's economic "recovery." On another note, I saw that ten-year treasury bonds are currently paying negative 2% interest.
The Sage of Storm Lake Weighs In: [Click] “President Trump is in deep trouble in the midwest, which edged him over the top into the White House, and things can only get worse by November.”
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) traveled to Delaware last weekend to meet with Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s first known in-person session with a potential running mate as he nears a decision, the AP reports.
Latest Stable Genius News: “President Trump announced on Friday he will pursue an executive order requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions, something that is already law,” Axios report. . .“The Affordable Care Act already requires insurers to cover pre-existing conditions. The Trump administration is currently arguing in a case before the Supreme Court to strike down that very law — including its pre-existing condition protections.”
‘I don’t trust them any more’: how the NRA became its own worst enemy [Click]
ReplyDeleteRats always sow the seeds of their own destruction.
DeleteThis is what coronavirus will do to our offices and homes.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-dc2d6e2d-3ab4-42de-8d03-bb7eda5fff8e
Imagine, also, having an old fashioned parlour at home for visiting, only with these modern innovations.
Interesting; the workplaces they describe are completely unlike any I ever inhabited.
DeleteWell, I've worked from home continuously for the past 23 years and for half the 20 years before that. And, like Alan, I never saw an open-plan office when I was working for someone else.
DeleteWil has mostly worked in cubicles, but the company he currently works for bought out his company's previous owner, and with great pomp and circumstance they moved everyone into a brand new building with a very open office space plan. Wil hates it. Many of them spend a lot of time on the phone and they're sitting within spitting distance from one another. Well, not currently, of course, because they're working from home. They had been in the new digs just a few months when COVID-19 hit. No one misses the office. And I do not see how the newfangled space is workable given the need for separation. It's pretty funny, really! I think they will have to reimagine the space and it may give some of them the license to work nearly completely from home. Wil would love that!
DeleteVT: 1448 known cases (+3)
ReplyDelete58 deaths / 135 cases
Recovered 1260 (+2)
In Hospital 1 (0)
Tests 100,962 (+910)
VT Gov Scott announced today that in addition to schools opening, team sports will happen. They are assessing some changes to contact sports. He says that if Vermont can't do it, no one can. So I guess we're the test case?
ReplyDeleteOHIO: As of Friday afternoon, there have been at least 98,675 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 3,652 deaths, and 11,447 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
ReplyDelete3.7%
DeleteDems offer to split the difference on coronavirus relief bill, WH flat out refuses. [Click]
ReplyDeleteI sure don't see how this aids Trump's economic "recovery." On another note, I saw that ten-year treasury bonds are currently paying negative 2% interest.
DeleteThe Sage of Storm Lake Weighs In: [Click] “President Trump is in deep trouble in the midwest, which edged him over the top into the White House, and things can only get worse by November.”
ReplyDeleteFor the first time since late May, Illinois today reported more than 2,000 new Covid-19 cases. It's not clear to me how all this is going to play out.
ReplyDeleteI think it is safe to say that Covid-19 will be with us permanently, but in time may not be of great significance.
DeleteKurt Andersen: College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots, or How I got co-opted into helping the rich prevail at the expense of everybody else [Click] He throws around some terms I never understood, but that aside, he fairly well describes the rot of our country that I have witnessed. A long read, but worthwhile, I think.
ReplyDeleteCollege sports embraced reckless greed. With the coronavirus crisis, the bill has come due. [Click] Interesting if true.
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ReplyDeletePositivity rate by State:
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/states-ranked-by-covid-19-test-positivity-rates-july-14.html
Cases Per State:
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2020/coronavirus-testing-by-state-chart-of-new-cases/
I suppose everyone has seen the news about California's big screw-up on the tally of cases.
DeleteTrump, losing his grip on GOP, wields less influence as crises mount [Click] The LA Times paywall kept me out of this article, so I googled it and found it in the open on the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.
ReplyDeleteHe's losing his grip on reality!
DeleteMichigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) traveled to Delaware last weekend to meet with Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s first known in-person session with a potential running mate as he nears a decision, the AP reports.
ReplyDeleteShe has experience dealing firmly with a recalcitrant legislature.
DeleteHere’s the story [Click]
DeleteAnd maybe Stacey Abrams for Attorney General?
DeleteReasonable.
DeleteI sure wish Joe would get his interviews done and make a decision.
Latest Stable Genius News:
ReplyDelete“President Trump announced on Friday he will pursue an executive order requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions, something that is already law,” Axios report. . .“The Affordable Care Act already requires insurers to cover pre-existing conditions. The Trump administration is currently arguing in a case before the Supreme Court to strike down that very law — including its pre-existing condition protections.”
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