[Electronics-talk] Telework/work from home/work virtually/telecommute?

Sat Jan 4 05:10:47 UTC 2014

With remote desktop access, more and more of these tech issues are 
resolved remotely anyway. At large companies, even if you're sitting in 
your office, chances are you'll be talking to someone off shore who will 
be remotely accessing your system and fixing those tech issues. Deskside 
support, where you're actually having someone looking at your system in 
person, is only used for critical issues where the system won't boot. 
Even then, you frequently just get shipped a new system overnight.

On 01/03/2014 10:48 PM, Lauren Merryfield wrote:
> Hi,
> Oh wow, techy stuff is beyond me. Airline reservations might be a
> possibility. I worked for two different hotel reservations companies back in
> the 90s, but they pushed people way too hard and were total perfectionists.
>
> I think part of the problem is getting rehab or someone from the company (or
> both) out to set things up on a home computer so that the company's system
> is accessible. And if there are tech issues, which there always are, it
> would be more difficult for someone from the company to come out to
> someone's home to fix things. At the hotel reservation centers, the tech
> person was always there, on call. We used to kid him about how he ought to
> just bring in his sleeping bag, haha.
> Thanks
> Lauren
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 8:06 PM
> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Telework/work from home/work
> virtually/telecommute?
>
> Some technical companies allow employees to work from home. Canonical, for
> example, is a company which contributes code to Ubuntu--a Linux
> distribution--and sells products and services around Ubuntu, has almost no
> offices and almost every employee works remotely from home. Some
> organizations in IBM also allow or even encourage employees to work from
> home. Marissa Mayer made news when she changed the policy at Yahoo
> eliminating the option for employees to work from home. If you have or want
> a software engineering degree or background then there will be some work
> from home options for you.
>
> On 01/03/2014 09:37 PM, Snow White Dove wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm sorry I'm coming late as usual to this, but I'd like to know the same
> thing.
>>
>> I don't want to do medical transcription.  That is what a lot of Blind
> people do at home from what I've seen.
>>
>> If there is any ideas, please share.
>>
>> Jenny
>> On Jan 2, 2014, at 10:41 PM, Lisa D Porter <lisaporter429 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Lauren,
>>> I'm definitely with you here. I want to work and have good skills, but
> we're getting ready to move to a small town with terrible transportation so
> Telework may be my only option.
>>> Lisa
>>>
>>> "Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe
> in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you"
>>> - Princes Diana
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/2/2014 11:16 PM, Lauren Merryfield wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I wish someone would tell us some options for teleworking as a blind
> person.
>>>> What kinds of work are blind people doing from home and what are the
>>>> options available?
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Lauren
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>>> On Behalf Of Makkawy, Amin
>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 6:45 PM
>>>> To: 'electronics-talk at nfbnet.org'
>>>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] Telework/work from home/work
>>>> virtually/telecommute?
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Amin Makkawy
>>>>
>>>> M.A. Student: Department of Communication Studies UNC Charlotte
>>>>
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