{"id":317,"date":"2024-03-28T12:15:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/?page_id=317"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:09:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:09:42","slug":"id-remote-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/departments\/interactive-design\/id-info\/id-remote-work\/","title":{"rendered":"I.D. Remote Work Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Review <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/departments\/interactive-design\/id-info\/communication-channels\/slack\/\">Slack best practices<\/a> to minimize noise and understand channel purposes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Participate in Monday Morning Minutes. Utilize the bookmarked workflow in <a href=\"https:\/\/app.slack.com\/client\/T024J2TTT\/CKVH7NC6Q\"><span>#id-morning-minutes<\/span><\/a> on your first workday of the week. Aim to get responses in before 10am.<\/li>\n<li>If low on tasks, notify your manager and <a href=\"https:\/\/app.slack.com\/client\/T024J2TTT\/C7VKD8NCQ\"><span>#ask-a-pm<\/span><\/a>. For small tasks, check #id-tiny-tasks.<\/li>\n<li>Check in daily with your manager, both ad-hoc and with an end-of-day summary.<\/li>\n<li>Track time daily with detailed descriptions.<\/li>\n<li>Use <a href=\"https:\/\/app.slack.com\/client\/T024J2TTT\/C04LKCZFH\"><span>#attendance<\/span><\/a> for sick days, vacations, and absences.<\/li>\n<li>Working hours are 9-5 with a 12-1 lunch break; communicate any schedule changes.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure any recurring appointments are known, with time made up or submitted for leave.<\/li>\n<li>Refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/departments\/interactive-design\/id-info-knowledge-processes\/communication-channels\/\">Communication Channels<\/a> table for proper platform use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\" bu-callout aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<h3>VPN<\/h3>\n<p>When working remotely, <strong>you&#8217;ll need the university\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">VPN for SFTP and Server Access<\/span><\/strong>\u2014check the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/remote\/vpn\/use\/\">VPN info on Techweb<\/a> to set up and test it in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Ensure you have essential equipment[charger, adapters, mouse, etc.] to work remotely, and for any hardware concerns, contact I.D. Creative Director <a href=\"mailto:jonpb@bu.edu\">Jon Brousseau<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review Slack best practices to minimize noise and understand channel purposes. Participate in Monday Morning Minutes. Utilize the bookmarked workflow in #id-morning-minutes on your first workday of the week. Aim to get responses in before 10am. If low on tasks, notify your manager and #ask-a-pm. For small tasks, check #id-tiny-tasks. Check in daily with your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12906,"featured_media":0,"parent":328,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12906"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317\/revisions\/2284"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}