What stops you from telecommuting ?
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there was a study in UK that telecommuters are more productive, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/04/telecommuters-more-productive-in-uk-study/[^] I ,might miss small talks with my colleagues but that's it ? Save my commute time and that make me more productive. What stops you from tele-commuting?
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I can't concentrate at home. I need the structure of a cell cube.
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I can't concentrate at home. I need the structure of a cell cube.
Same here. My goof off level at home is high enough that the ~80 minutes I save commuting and by eating out of the fridge instead of from a restaurant end up being lost because it's sometime between 5:30 and 6pm before I've accomplished the equivalent of an 8 hour day in the office. I think I might be able to pull if off if I had a larger place and wasn't trying to work at my kitchen table; but as is I only WFH when I'm contagious, suffering Montezuma's revenge, or have something too expensive to leave out on the porch incoming from Newegg.
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I can't concentrate at home. I need the structure of a cell cube.
ya but that you can have a one home office kind of bedroom dedicated for wfh that way it saves cmommute
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there was a study in UK that telecommuters are more productive, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/04/telecommuters-more-productive-in-uk-study/[^] I ,might miss small talks with my colleagues but that's it ? Save my commute time and that make me more productive. What stops you from tele-commuting?
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
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there was a study in UK that telecommuters are more productive, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/04/telecommuters-more-productive-in-uk-study/[^] I ,might miss small talks with my colleagues but that's it ? Save my commute time and that make me more productive. What stops you from tele-commuting?
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
For most people the answer to that question is 'my boss'. I can work from home, we have some who do it more than others, some with health problems pretty much all the time. It is easier not to work at home if you don't want to. It is easier to work if you do. I cannot do it all the time as I am wanted for face to face meetings, to look at hardware, and so the company can actually see me and get some reassurance that I do still think about work. If you don't have muc of a social life outside of work then you can go a little stir crazy without enough direct human interaction, I did a number of years largely working alone but not at home, and it became really miserable after a while as the hours were odd too so when I finished most of the rest of the country was in bed.
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there was a study in UK that telecommuters are more productive, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/04/telecommuters-more-productive-in-uk-study/[^] I ,might miss small talks with my colleagues but that's it ? Save my commute time and that make me more productive. What stops you from tele-commuting?
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
Only the lack of anyone willing to pay me to do it. I'm sat in front of 5 monitors and at least as much computing power as any employer would lavish on me in my dedicated home office. I'm online and I have 3 different IDEs open on 2 different operating systems. If someone wants to put money in my bank I'll write the code they want. Until then I'll write the code I want :-D
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there was a study in UK that telecommuters are more productive, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/04/telecommuters-more-productive-in-uk-study/[^] I ,might miss small talks with my colleagues but that's it ? Save my commute time and that make me more productive. What stops you from tele-commuting?
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
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there was a study in UK that telecommuters are more productive, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/04/telecommuters-more-productive-in-uk-study/[^] I ,might miss small talks with my colleagues but that's it ? Save my commute time and that make me more productive. What stops you from tele-commuting?
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
The fact that the product I'm working on runs a 60-foot long, $2M printing press that would be rather difficult to fit in my upstairs home office.
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there was a study in UK that telecommuters are more productive, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/04/telecommuters-more-productive-in-uk-study/[^] I ,might miss small talks with my colleagues but that's it ? Save my commute time and that make me more productive. What stops you from tele-commuting?
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
The boss. The best I can hope for is "virtual" work, where I can find a desk somewhere else to sit at. (For instance, working on Fort Hood which is 10 minutes away, rather than the VA Hospital, which is 45 minutes away.)
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ya but that you can have a one home office kind of bedroom dedicated for wfh that way it saves cmommute
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That may work for you; it doesn't for me. I've tried.
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there was a study in UK that telecommuters are more productive, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/04/telecommuters-more-productive-in-uk-study/[^] I ,might miss small talks with my colleagues but that's it ? Save my commute time and that make me more productive. What stops you from tele-commuting?
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
Nothing at all. I do. :thumbsup:
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there was a study in UK that telecommuters are more productive, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/04/telecommuters-more-productive-in-uk-study/[^] I ,might miss small talks with my colleagues but that's it ? Save my commute time and that make me more productive. What stops you from tele-commuting?
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
I think it says that the employees *said* they were more productive. Of course they would say that... they want to continue doing so :-D
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there was a study in UK that telecommuters are more productive, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/04/telecommuters-more-productive-in-uk-study/[^] I ,might miss small talks with my colleagues but that's it ? Save my commute time and that make me more productive. What stops you from tele-commuting?
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
The teleportation device still has a few bugs that need to be worked out.
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there was a study in UK that telecommuters are more productive, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/04/telecommuters-more-productive-in-uk-study/[^] I ,might miss small talks with my colleagues but that's it ? Save my commute time and that make me more productive. What stops you from tele-commuting?
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
I suppose it depends on numerous stuff - both personal and external. E.g. some may not want to work at home - i.e. home they see as their "personal" space and don't want to "pollute" it with work. Under this I'd class unable to stop playing computer games when at home all the way through to wanting to spend your time with family while at home. This is not me though, I can only imagine such. But I think the much more prevalent reasons for not telecommuting it external influences: The "boss" simply wants to see you at the office all the time, some bosses are like that - all they care about is attendance (you could do whatever else as long as you do it at the office). Stupid, but I've had a few of these - have seen employees putting in overtime while playing some game on the office PC. "Boss" (read "Idiot") doesn't care: "They're here aren't they?" Type of work, sometimes your work involves some physical place you have to be - which means you have to travel no matter what. Perhaps going to a client's office to install / update / support the software you / your company made / sells. Size of data (depends on job), cost and speed of data communications (depends on area): I know in most of the western world internet access is quite fast and extremely cheap. Some other countries however find this situation reversed - I've done the calcs for myself: Would cost me around 3 times as much to do daily up/downloads of the project files (current project's main file is 130MB Revit RVT file - takes around 2 hours to download here) than to drive with my own car back and forth (15km one-way commute in Johannesburg South Africa).
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there was a study in UK that telecommuters are more productive, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/04/telecommuters-more-productive-in-uk-study/[^] I ,might miss small talks with my colleagues but that's it ? Save my commute time and that make me more productive. What stops you from tele-commuting?
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
Depends what your job entails. I have to talk to a lot of people, every day, and a quick chat by the coffee machine or at a desk can be far more efficient than any of the electronic means of communication.
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there was a study in UK that telecommuters are more productive, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/04/telecommuters-more-productive-in-uk-study/[^] I ,might miss small talks with my colleagues but that's it ? Save my commute time and that make me more productive. What stops you from tele-commuting?
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
Daytime TV
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That may work for you; it doesn't for me. I've tried.
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I've tried.
what went wrong ?
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haha :) too much distractions
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For most people the answer to that question is 'my boss'. I can work from home, we have some who do it more than others, some with health problems pretty much all the time. It is easier not to work at home if you don't want to. It is easier to work if you do. I cannot do it all the time as I am wanted for face to face meetings, to look at hardware, and so the company can actually see me and get some reassurance that I do still think about work. If you don't have muc of a social life outside of work then you can go a little stir crazy without enough direct human interaction, I did a number of years largely working alone but not at home, and it became really miserable after a while as the hours were odd too so when I finished most of the rest of the country was in bed.
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i agree on both boss and social aspect of it. Boss want to see your face and without going to Office, it can become really lonely.
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Only the lack of anyone willing to pay me to do it. I'm sat in front of 5 monitors and at least as much computing power as any employer would lavish on me in my dedicated home office. I'm online and I have 3 different IDEs open on 2 different operating systems. If someone wants to put money in my bank I'll write the code they want. Until then I'll write the code I want :-D
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yes there was also a study at stanford which said that Working from home increases performance
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