What stops you from telecommuting ?

Raj Lal

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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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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Matthew Faithfull

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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Raj Lal wrote:

What stops you from tele-commuting?

Flexibility and independence.

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Gary R Wheeler

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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GenJerDan

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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Nothing at all. I do. :thumbsup:

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Ashley van Gerven

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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irneb

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).

Mark_Wallace

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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