Virtual Company
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Christian Graus wrote:
I don't lose any time to travel,
That is the main problem in the crowded cities like India.
Christian Graus wrote:
my employer doesn't have to buy me a PC
Employer must provide atleat Machine to work.
Christian Graus wrote:
..pay for my office space, or power, or anything else
Even the employee can work from his native village(closely with nature)...that reduce the cost of living than a city..
Karthik M
karthik Tamizhmathi wrote:
Employer must provide atleat Machine to work.
Well, I guess that's up to the invidivual. Even when I worked in an office, I've provided a notebook that I've worked on for years now. I just preferred that to the piece of junk PCs they were allocating to people.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
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I used to spend heck a lot of time on it. I keep playing for days that slowly a dark black ring around both the eyes start to appear. I forget food. I forget drink. I forget talking bath(oops! sorry hehe).. It goes on till my mom comes with a broom stick. She tells me that she hates to see those tiny creature roaming around on my screen. She means the people in AOE (the Villagers, the millitia, the paladin, the skimrisher, the archer, the pikeman, the scorpion, the mangonel, oops. I stop with this. my hands start to shiver in addiction :laugh:) Sadly all these happend in my college days. Now I'm working. but still.. "Attack!!!" we are now playing online, sometimes in LAN and sometimes in the internet. But the frequency has come the rock bottom. I and my friends are being flooded with workloads. :(.. But we'll resume the war very soon. You know when I open AOE , I speak, I walk , & sit in Spanish. Because I belong to the Spanish civilization you know :->
--[:jig:]-- [My Current Status] Link2006 wrote:Let's take it outside of CP Jeremy : Please don't.I would love to see this.I'm making the popcorn already.
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I agree 100%. I choose the hours I work ( although I choose to make them regular, so I know for sure I'm doing my hours week by week ), and I'm never interupted by people wandering by and deciding they want a chat. I don't lose any time to travel, I don't need time to go and find food ( I just go to my fridge ), and I have complete control over my environment ( metal posters on the walls, loud music a lot of the time ), which means I am relaxed and at ease. I'd hate to give it a number, but I definately get more done since I work from home. Oh, and when, for example, my kids get sick, I can set them up in front of the TV and know that they are taken care of, and keep working. When I get sick, I may rest a bit, but I invariably keep working, even if I don't work all day. All of those things would also increase my output compared to office life. Working from home is a win-win as far as I can see. I am happier, I produce more, my employer doesn't have to buy me a PC, or pay for my office space, or power, or anything else. If I ever have to hire anyone, my first choice would be to find someone I can trust to work from home. That's really the only worry, I'm sure some people would not prosper in an environment where they are unsupervised.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
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VuNic wrote:
It goes on till my mom comes with a broom stick.
Secret of yor success... :-D
Best Regards, Apurva Kaushal
Do you play pc games?
--[:jig:]-- [My Current Status] Link2006 wrote:Let's take it outside of CP Jeremy : Please don't.I would love to see this.I'm making the popcorn already.
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Do you play pc games?
--[:jig:]-- [My Current Status] Link2006 wrote:Let's take it outside of CP Jeremy : Please don't.I would love to see this.I'm making the popcorn already.
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Recently i read an article that claims "Employees working from home can be 60% more productive than a regular conventional working culture". How much truth in this ? Virtual Company will get boom in future ?
Karthik M
It is easy to imagine that 60% is a good number. In the office there can be a constant stream of interruptions. Some important to the project, some not so much. "How was the [weekend|vacation|game|movie|tv show|etc]?", "How's the [wife|kids|dog|new car|etc]?" and on and on and on. You all know what I mean. Related question: in the office, how do you control the interruptions? You are a friendly, outgoing person who always says "Hello" to your coworkers and wants to be thought of as a 'nice' guy. What do you do when the relationships evolve and you find yourself unable to manage the too many non work related interruptions from too many coworkers? Is the answer that you need to decide between being friendly and being productive?
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Recently i read an article that claims "Employees working from home can be 60% more productive than a regular conventional working culture". How much truth in this ? Virtual Company will get boom in future ?
Karthik M
What a fantastic idea..;)!!! Work from home would always be great...simply great... No specific time frame...no hecking...just you and your work.. Just finish it and spend rest of your time with family n friends!! Grt grt!! Ho but when will that happen.. hope in the near future for me :-D
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Recently i read an article that claims "Employees working from home can be 60% more productive than a regular conventional working culture". How much truth in this ? Virtual Company will get boom in future ?
Karthik M
That depends on what you've got at home. A bachelor should be at least two or three times as productive (presuming the guy was working at the office in the first place :)). I'm not going to explain too much, just two concepts: 'not making the trip to the office' and 'underpants'. But since I'm married and I've got a cat, I have to fight for my right to privacy and silence, which gets terribly annoying and contraproductive. So I am working at the office, even if I am wasting 2 hours everyday by just going and coming to work.:sigh:
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A great deal, but it depends on factors such as a) your home environment, b) what sort of work you are doing and c) how much you need to interact with others. Furthermore, some people more naturally adapt to it than others. Personally I find home working to be quite natural - I find commuting really draining (and could spend that time working!), and work far more efficiently when I can set my hours rather than having to fit in with an artificial working day. :rose:
Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
I find commuting really draining (and could spend that time working!), and work far more efficiently when I can set my hours rather than having to fit in with an artificial working day
I'm exactly the same. Unfortunately I don't have the ability to set my hours as I'd like (when I did I would work from around 19:00 to 04:00 the following morning). On the plus side, I now live a 15 minute walk from the office, so the "commute" isn't so bad and I get some exercise as well. Much better that the 1h45m drive/train each way that I was doing before I moved house. (If anyone is curious - I now live in Glasgow.)
Upcoming Scottish Developers events: * UK Security Evangelists On Tour (2nd November, Edinburgh) * Developer Day Scotland: are you interested in speaking or attending? My: Website | Blog
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Recently i read an article that claims "Employees working from home can be 60% more productive than a regular conventional working culture". How much truth in this ? Virtual Company will get boom in future ?
Karthik M
karthik Tamizhmathi wrote:
60% more productive than a regular conventional working culture".
I get about 75% of my work for the day done before the boss and coworkers get there. Or on Saturdays. I come in early just to get work done. My boss always wants to “help” or send other’s over to “help” because that’s how he does his best work. I do best alone, no interruptions. My boss has “helped” me all day on problems I’ll get it done within an hour after he leaves. Or a problems others have been working a month on, I’ll get done, by myself, on a weekend. We haven’t moved into the ‘90’s yet so there is no telecommuting at my place so I don’t know how work from home does. But I know if no one’s around, I get the job done. I would love to see how it works to work from home. Joe Q
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
I find commuting really draining (and could spend that time working!), and work far more efficiently when I can set my hours rather than having to fit in with an artificial working day
I'm exactly the same. Unfortunately I don't have the ability to set my hours as I'd like (when I did I would work from around 19:00 to 04:00 the following morning). On the plus side, I now live a 15 minute walk from the office, so the "commute" isn't so bad and I get some exercise as well. Much better that the 1h45m drive/train each way that I was doing before I moved house. (If anyone is curious - I now live in Glasgow.)
Upcoming Scottish Developers events: * UK Security Evangelists On Tour (2nd November, Edinburgh) * Developer Day Scotland: are you interested in speaking or attending? My: Website | Blog
Those sound like my sort of hours! :laugh: Unfortunately I've only once been lucky enough to live in walking distance from work (and even then they moved the office after a few months). More typically, I end up commuting by car as the public transport to sites I visit is invariably either crap or non-existant.
Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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Such conditions were way back about 5-10 years back. Several cities have got good broadband and very good infrastructure. Which city are you from? Regards, Gautam Jain
Regards, Gautam Jain
Gautam Jain wrote:
Regards, Gautam Jain Regards, Gautam Jain
Is there an echo? ;)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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karthik Tamizhmathi wrote:
Employer must provide atleat Machine to work.
Well, I guess that's up to the invidivual. Even when I worked in an office, I've provided a notebook that I've worked on for years now. I just preferred that to the piece of junk PCs they were allocating to people.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
Christian Graus wrote:
Well, I guess that's up to the invidivual.
Not always. In defense companies like mine, personal laptops may not be used at all. Sure the majority of companies are not in that situation, but they do exist :)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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That depends on what you've got at home. A bachelor should be at least two or three times as productive (presuming the guy was working at the office in the first place :)). I'm not going to explain too much, just two concepts: 'not making the trip to the office' and 'underpants'. But since I'm married and I've got a cat, I have to fight for my right to privacy and silence, which gets terribly annoying and contraproductive. So I am working at the office, even if I am wasting 2 hours everyday by just going and coming to work.:sigh:
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Siderite Zaqwedex wrote:
underpants
:laugh:!!
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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Recently i read an article that claims "Employees working from home can be 60% more productive than a regular conventional working culture". How much truth in this ? Virtual Company will get boom in future ?
Karthik M
If you go to work for a virtual company, make sure that it isn't a virtual pay cheque that you get paid with. :)
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A great deal, but it depends on factors such as a) your home environment, b) what sort of work you are doing and c) how much you need to interact with others. Furthermore, some people more naturally adapt to it than others. Personally I find home working to be quite natural - I find commuting really draining (and could spend that time working!), and work far more efficiently when I can set my hours rather than having to fit in with an artificial working day. :rose:
Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Furthermore, some people more naturally adapt to it than others.
Yep. I'm one of the people it doesn't work well for. I need the extra 90-100m I alledgedly would savy by not getting ready for work, commuting, and going out for lunch to get 8 hours of actual work in at home.
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Recently i read an article that claims "Employees working from home can be 60% more productive than a regular conventional working culture". How much truth in this ? Virtual Company will get boom in future ?
Karthik M
I shouldn't have to be an all or nothing choice. I think the most productive mode for me would be a 50/50 (er...with a 5 day work week 60/40) split. I don't have such an arrangement, but it would be a great boon to me. I have two autistic children. It would be a great benefit to the family if I could work more from home. As it is, I put in some time from home when we have critical health issues (about once a month) that I am gratefuil to have. And I end up spending a few nights per week logged in from home anyway Rick Brooks Programmer/Analyst (Do NOT abbreviate as Prog/Anal!) Chelsea, OK
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Recently i read an article that claims "Employees working from home can be 60% more productive than a regular conventional working culture". How much truth in this ? Virtual Company will get boom in future ?
Karthik M
Hi I can confirm that. I'm working (most times) from home and I'll be much more productive than when I'm working at the customers. Basicaly it doesn't change the working culture (most of our employees are working from home) but you have to take care about that you can meet all in some frequences (2 - 3 month). We are doing this. Regards from switzerland Rolf Ackermann
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karthik Tamizhmathi wrote:
Recently i read an article that claims "Employees working from home can be 60% more productive than a regular conventional working culture". How much truth in this ? Virtual Company will get boom in future ?
In my experience, it depends on the personality of the person who is working from home and to some extent the work they are doing. When I worked at home, my productivity was pretty much the same as when I worked in an office. I still got distracted and bored, but when working from home I could take long breaks during the day and catch up with the work later in the night. Also, you need good communication lines otherwise a person working at home can feel isolated and not part of a team. In the software development game, working at an office has the advantage of being able to call another programmer over to look at some code you are struggling with. When you start having to email or IM bits of code to help spot the bugs it can slow down the work.
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On the interactive programming help problem: I work from home for a small startup and I struggled with the need to have input from other programmers. What we ended up doing was using Skype and Remote Desktop to share our development desktop - essentially pair programming over the Net. Took a little getting used to, but works well once you get the hang of it.
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But don't you have a wee bairn ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
You mean a boyfriend? :rolleyes: