As I mentioned in my last article, I am currently working from home to complete my placement year. Today I will simply introduce how my working pattern has changed and how I adapted to this change.
上一篇文章我有稍微提到目前我是以在家工作的方式繼續完成我剩下的實習，今天我會簡單的介紹有什麼工作方式上的轉變跟我如何去適應，那麼就繼續看下去吧～
In the beginning of introduce WFH policy before the lockdown, some of our essential workers such as rack build team are still going into the office to complete their jobs. Because of the department I chose, Project Engineering, is part of the design team, as long as we have our laptop with us we can still manage to complete our tasks wherever we are. In that case, the job content doesn’t affect me too much as I am still doing designs using AutoCAD. I will say the only thing I am not quite comfortable with is using dual screen on the tiny desk in my room!
在公司要求大家在家工作跟政府宣佈禁令之前，還是有一些需要到公司上班的施工組員工們繼續前往辦公室工作。而我所在的組別Project Engineering是屬於設計組的原因，只要我們有電腦，其實在哪裡工作對我們來說都沒有太大的差別。所以對我來說工作內容其實沒什麼改變，因為我還是在持續用AutoCAD來完成所有的設計圖跟工作內容。硬要說有任何改變的話應該就是我到現在還是覺得用我房間的小書桌來看兩個螢幕還蠻不方便的哈哈😂
Although the work contents didn’t change at all, the communication between the team and department does change a lot for sure, to keep our social distance even the coffee club has moved to online as well! To make sure everyone is on track with the project and deadline they are doing even though we are all working individual at home, we had a regular Monday meeting with all the project engineering teams together to review what we will be working on throughout the week. It is also a good timing to raise any concerns for the projects or taking any extra workload if some of us have a light week. I would say in some days I could even have more calls compares to actually doing the design itself. But I don’t mind having more calls actually haha because working from home without seeing people in person does slowly drive people crazy😖
雖然說我的工作內容沒有改變太多，組員之間還有部門與部門的溝通方式的確是變動蠻大的，畢竟要維持社交距離嘛，連我們的的咖啡俱樂部都改成線上聚會了！為了讓大家持續的對自己手上的工作還有截止日保持更新，我們有一個每週一早上所有的設計工程師都出席的會議，讓大家彙報跟規劃自己未來一週的工作內容。這時候大家也可以提出任何在工作上的任何擔憂，或是有些人比較有空的話可以互相分配工作量。現在有時候我一整天打電話的時間都比畫設計圖還久了，不過我是不介意一直開會啦，畢竟一直自己在家工作沒人可以面對面講話其實還是會慢慢把人搞瘋的拉哈哈哈😖
Some of you might wondering quite a lot of industry and companies are sending employees home or having serious financial lost across the globe, does it affects you? The answer is luckily no! If some of you still remember, the job that we are doing is to build the AV solution including video conferencing, under the pandemic a lot of organization has realized that they need to update or adjust to remote conferencing for future use to cope any situation like this where we all have to work from home. Therefore our company are still doing alright, still having new jobs coming in, which we don’t need to worry too much at this stage. The only effect to our company is probably the on-site build/construction team, since quite a lot of company are restricted their access policy which might cause the project delivery date to be delay. Due to the policy could be loosen in the future, hopefully everything will slowly go back on track.
你們可能會想說世界各地有那麼多大企業大公司都在放無薪假損失慘重了，有沒有影響到你啊？答案是很幸運的沒有！如果之前有看我文章的人應該還記得我們公司是在做安裝影音器材還有遠端會議的設計，經過這波疫情相信有很多公司開始重視遠端器材的必要性來解決大家都要線上作業的情況。所以對於我們公司來說其實沒什麼太大的影響，到現在還是持續的有新工作進來所以這階段還不需要太擔心。要說影響的話大概是那些現場需要施工的案子了，由於還蠻多機構跟公司都在管制出入的條件了所以還蠻多案子現在是屬於一個延後的狀態，不過隨著政策逐漸的在放寬，相信一切都會慢慢恢復軌道。
That’s pretty much some changes and update for my placement job at the moment, in the next article I will start talking about as a Taiwanese, foreigner here in the UK what kind of supports and concerns we will have. I will see you all next time then!
那今天我的實習更新就但這裡做一段結束啦，在下一篇文章我會來討論身為一個台灣人、外國人在英國可以得到得幫助跟一些其他的擔憂，那麼我們就下次見啦！
Mandy xx
