I've continued working pretty much as normal throughout.
Not because my job is 'essential' (I mean, yes, sort of, at least to the scientists who want to publish with us, but not to society in general — and a lot of researchers/ academics have had their activities curtailed as well), but because my work is (now) entirely screen-based, and the company offices are converted houses, where I have a room to myself (and right now even a building to myself). So I can go an entire working day without any face-to-face interaction required with anyone (sounds like heaven, right? Nope).
The
only reason I'm not already doing home-office like a lot of my colleagues (including my 3 former housemates) — and my wife — is that there's something about our home-ISP which prevents me from accessing the company-intranet directly from home (whether from my PC, or from a Mac-notebook supplied by the company, which we tested during the first week of the lockdown). So someone in-house would have to mail the needed files out to me, and then upload them to our server once I'd mailed them back, i.e. they'd be interrupting their own work to facilitate mine. So I might as well be in-house, and do it myself.
Also, I use a Mac at work, and the latest version of Adobe Reader (for Mac?) allows me to add annotations to article-PDFs for our typesetters to implement in Quark. Conversely, my PC OS is Win8.1, and seems to have only an
extremely limited — MS Metro-compatible
— version of Reader installed (or it's possibly even Cloud-based: I haven't yet been able to find the install-location on my C-drive), which doesn't allow this.
(We're using this rather outdated/clunky system because, to date, no-one has managed to persuade the boss to allow us to switch to a more modern desktop publishing/design package)
