Reading El Reg while working from home? Here's a pleasant thought: Kaspersky says 1 in 10 of you are naked right now
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/12/09/kaspersky_guilty_lockdown_pleasures/
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Kaspersky's research of more than 8,000 bods from 18 countries including the UK, US, China, and Luxembourg quizzed folk on the guilty pleasures that made the months spent indoors this year more bearable.
Most of the responses may be familiar to Reg readers: almost half (48 per cent) said they had worked in comfy clothes all day, presumably pyjamas or general lounge wear. And a little more than a third (36 per cent) boasted of weekday lie-ins where they set the alarm clock to go off five minutes before their start time.
A tad more than a quarter (27 per cent) found working in the garden or on the balcony helped during lockdown – though in the northern hemisphere this is no longer an option unless they wrap themselves in thermal gear.
Then came the disgusting admissions of slobbery and grabbing fun during work hours where possible. Some 23 per cent admitted to binge watching Netflix during working hours, 16 per cent ordered takeaway lunches, and 11 per cent said that toiling away in the buff was their thing.
Some 12 per cent of respondents in the UK said like working with their kit off - 62 people, including 26 men and 36 women. Kaspersky didn't give a wider geographic breakdown.
Neither did Kaspersky tell us if there was an overlap between naked workers and those that ticked the separate box about having lower personal hygiene standards when locked up at home. The reason for the research, said the company, was apparently to highlight the importance of using reliable tech to protect individual freedoms, though that didn't scream out at us.
Those of a certain age may remember the Romeo cleaners, the German dudes that appeared in episodes of Eurotrash in the early '90s, who for a fee would dust and freshen up customers' premises while wearing nowt by skimpy briefs.
El Reg went hunting and discovered a similar service closer to home: Naturist Cleaners was set up in 2017 by Laura Smith, who claimed it was to tap into a "growing new interest in nude cleaning in British society".
Apparently, it is a welcome break from the stuffy office, one of the cleaners told [1]Cambridgeshire Live in 2018.
The pandemic has brought challenges and opportunities, and allowed different people to express themselves in new ways. [2]A bold new world awaits this correspondent . Let us know in the comments if you feel the same. ®
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[1] https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/naked-cleaners-job-naturist-cleaners-15254360
[2] https://www.naturistcleaners.co.uk/work-for-us/
[3] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: And the point is what exactly?
Kaspersky got a mention on an IT news site. That's the only ever point.
Re: And the point is what exactly?
This - all stories that begin with a vendor and some pointless research is to drum up free marketing for the vendor - everything from a pointless biased statistic to some problem that conveniently the vendor can solve if you buy their stuff... yay security vendors.
How can people function without a morning shower to wake them up (in the 5 minutes between bed and starting work), that's what I want to know!
Five minutes is just long enough to brew up a cup of thick sludge which might just have enough caffeine in to bootstrap your brain...
Mine's the cup with the heavy tannin staining, thanks. Milk, one.
I tried jumping out of bed into my day clothes and starting work, it didn't cut it. I need that hot shower to open\clear my sinus' (sp?) and kickstart my morning. Since my office is casual anyway, I put on my usual clothes and begin my WFH day. I do wear sandals at home! That is about the only difference.
coffee
Functional?
Who says their goal is to be functional? Functionality seems like such a pre-lockdown concept.
a "growing new interest in nude cleaning in British society"
I don't want a job cleaning nude people. Learn to clean yourselves you mucky sods.
Re: a "growing new interest in nude cleaning in British society"
It's easier than cleaning the ones who are clothed. A quick pass with a Kärcher should do it.
Eurotrash
It was only this morning that I recalled Eurotrash after mentioning John Paul Gaultier on another post.
Where's Antoine de Caunes there days - Paris is old enough now for him to invite her for "Sit On Me".
Re: Eurotrash
"Allo meh Eenglish chums".
"toiling away in the buff"
It is 1ºC outside.
In the northern hemisphere, this is not the season to be naked anywhere but in the shower or the bed.
Not unless your heating bills are not your problem.
And besides, having your sweaty crack oozing away on your chair all day ? Yech.
Naked coding? Sounds Agile...
Not sure I'd ever be tempted to go au natural when coding; it's one thing to go pottering around the house while wearing minimal levels of clothing, but another entirely to sit stationary in front of a computer, especially during the colder part of the years.
Not least since these days, laptops and LCD monitors don't put out anywhere near the same amount of heat as older desktops and CRTs did.
And given that I'm in Yorkshire, it's pretty much a legal requirement to not turn the heating on unless you've woken up with icicles hanging off your nose and ears...
Re: Naked coding? Sounds Agile...
And given that I'm in Yorkshire, it's pretty much a legal requirement to not turn the heating on unless you've woken up with icicles hanging off your nose and ears...
Having been born and brought up in Edinburgh I have to ask what is this "heating" of which you speak?
Re: Naked coding? Sounds Agile...
Are you guys trying to dissuade me that a commonly held belief is incorrect?
That the definition of a Yorkshire man, is a Scotsman with the spending potential removed!
Re: Naked coding? Sounds Agile...
"what is this "heating" of which you speak?"
Isn't it the reek bit of Aluld Reekie?
Re: Naked coding? Sounds Agile...
Growing up in a Yorkshire mining town:
1 - snow on the roofs of all the terraces, even with the assistance of free issue coal
2 - snow on most of the roofs, but ooh, look, no snow, they've got new central heating
3 - no snow on the roofs, everybody's got central heating
4 - no snow on the roofs, except, ooh look, they've got snow, must have got insulation
5 - no snow on the roofs, must be global warming...
Re: Naked coding? Sounds Agile...
6. Snow on the roads, the council still haven't got the gritters out.
Re: Naked coding? Sounds Agile...
Agile - lean and mean. Carry no baggage
... and uninstall
Who needs antivirus anyway, having suffered even ebola and survived? Also sacked that russian guy, for good measure.
Once again, Kaspersky spying on users...
This time gathering data via the user's camera no doubt.
Wally got there first...
[1]https://dilbert.com/strip/2020-12-03
[1] https://dilbert.com/strip/2020-12-03
Re: Wally got there first...
Well perhaps; here's another one from 25 years ago...
https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-02-07
Never Nude
I got piteous looks in the shop yesterday because my pyjamas had escaped my socks and were dreeping below my breeks. Mind you, I normally live in an area where people often went shopping in their pyjamas before the pandemic so shame is a choice. I have left my silk thermals where I legally can't retrieve them and it's not warm out, it's not warm in. Mine's the 'audio only' video link.
Webcams?
I do hope they have put some opaque tape over the webcams on their PCs, iMacs etc.
I know you are supposed to be emboldened by imagining your audience naked, but actually, I find it rather off-putting.
Excuse me, I am feeling slightly nauseous at the thought that people are reading this post naked.
I don't consider myself a hardcore environmentalist, but setting the thermostat to "can comfortably stay naked for hours while sedentary" in winter is bad.
Did my morning standup sitting down. In bed, with only a T shirt on. At one point I made a move to grab something from the other room and almost revealed the crown jewels.
Well I suppose viewing balls would make a change from listening to folks spouting them......
Whut's the issue here?
Of COURSE I do my Zoom calls naked. Then again I do almost everything naked, and hate wearing clothing and do so only as much as necessary.
So those around me on a personal level are used to that.
I've kept my morning routine as normal as possible so it's less of a shock to the system when the day comes I have to go back into the office.
Get up, shower, get dressed, breakfast...
I also do a "fake" commute. Go for a 20/30 min walk (depending if it's not chucking it down) round the neighbourhood to clear the cobwebs, varying the route from time to time.
"One in ten employees forced to work from home like to do so in the buff"
That's about the percentage of my co-workers that I might want to see in the buff. Probably not the specific ones, though.
And the point is what exactly?
Yeah, ok. But what is the point of the research? Seems utterly pointless to me unless they are selling the mined data to people who want to sell you loungewear.