Well THIS should be interesting!

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Um, so my organization sent us home Thursday to do a "work from home" run-through to ensure our readiness to support any IT needs should home-based work be needful and guess what?  It's needful!  As of Thursday evening, we aren't allowed back in the office! 

Can we work from home?  Yes. Obvs!

Do we have all the equipment we need to be highly productive? No, I'm going to miss my docking station, but I cannibalized my home setup for its large-screen monitor, so I'm better off than many.

What does this mean for collaboration? Well this is where "the rubber meets the road," so to speak. Will we be able to transition from hallway "flybys" over to proper collaboration tools?  Time will tell. I suspect we will see more Teams and Slack, however. And probably a huge increase in online meetings.

Is this freaky? Are we going to survive this?  Yes and yes. But speaking as a dinosaur roaming the modern landscape, it sure feels like that @$$&#! meteor got some airbrushing and came back as a virus! 

Keep your head down and be safe!