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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.)
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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
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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:
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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
yes working from home is more productive reasons 1) time and expenses of travelling saved 2) working night at home have more concentration level 3) the infra cost of company is reduced and may come back as incentives , bonuses or salary increase which will also effect the working 4) tiring schedule of daily up-down also decrease performance 5) at home we do not have irritating boss/ colleagues 6) no office politics came to play how ever it is not up for everybody because everybody is not going to utilise the time properly to meet these challenges company should pay attention to constant work progress and incentives :-D
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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.
I also work at home for a startup and we do the same thing. In addition to Remote Assistance, we also have a GoToMeeting subscription, and we use a second monitor to constantly see what the other person is doing if necessary. A lot of our work needs to be done side-by-side, so with Skype voice chat and GoToMeeting, it's just like working next to him (but more private).
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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
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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
When I was working at office, I was very frustrated to spend 2-3 hours each days on the road. When I get home at evenings, I was so tired and could not spend time with my family effectively. I have been working at home for more then 3 years right now, and I quite satisfied with it. I feel more flexible and productive.