What stops you from telecommuting ?
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That may work for you; it doesn't for me. I've tried.
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
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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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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delete this;ah tahts seems to be reasonable problem :)
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Raj Lal wrote:
What stops you from tele-commuting?
Flexibility and independence.
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but won't you be more independent WFH ?
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Nothing at all. I do. :thumbsup:
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great :) What are the software you use for day to day activities ?
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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).
Thanks for the detail reply : ) so i guess its the technical difficulties like broadband connection and type of work where you have to collaborate with others are major reasons.
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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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i agree, nothing beats a face to face chat
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i agree, nothing beats a face to face chat
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Raj Lal wrote:
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... Which includes every word in that God-awful book. If you want to learn to write better English, stay far away from that garbage.
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Raj Lal wrote:
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... Which includes every word in that God-awful book. If you want to learn to write better English, stay far away from that garbage.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
stay far away from that
I would love to know what would you recommend to learn or write better english.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
stay far away from that
I would love to know what would you recommend to learn or write better english.
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If you must use a style guide, then Oxford/Hart's style guide, or anything from David Crystal. But bear in mind that style guides do not tell you about rules of grammar; they only tell you about the preferences of the author, which should not be taken as rules (no matter how loudly the authors shout that they should). A basic grammar book is all you really need (the smaller, the better; English has remarkably few actual rules). That and 20 years' practice in communicating with the written word, if you're writing for multiple readerships -- your target readership has to understand your full meaning after having read the text only once, that's the real target. Strunk was a university professor, who wrote his style guide for his students to follow when submitting work to him, so it is entirely based on what made it easier for him to mark papers, containing "rules" that are just plain wrong (e.g. the cr@p about passive voice), and are incredibly dumbed down. E. B. White later expanded worsened Strunk's text, by adding his own views -- i.e. the views of a person who wrote stories for young children, so it was driven even deeper into a niche that applies to almost no-one, and dumbed down yet further. It is one of the worst books on the English language that has ever been published.
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great :) What are the software you use for day to day activities ?
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For collab stuff? Our needs are pretty basic, so nothing too fancy. Asana[^] (task management), and Skype[^] (IM/VOIP) are the main two. We're also considering adopting an online CRM solution such as Insightly[^] rather than the homebrew setup we have at the moment. If you are working in a larger team I've heard good things about Code Collaborator[^].
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but won't you be more independent WFH ?
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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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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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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 started telecommuting 2 years ago with one day at home. My boss said I got so much more done at home and eventually gave me Monday, Wednesday and Friday at home. I still make appearances at work on Tuesdays and Thursdays if needed but I find myself wondering down the hall to see friends when I am in the office. Saves me $50 a month in gas and 2 hours a day in commute time, of course I am going to get more done at home. I have a dedicated home office, but find myself in the lazy boy with my laptop next to the fire most of the time now. I love my job.
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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 worked at home for several years and it was great for me. I have a home office set up, so in the morning I would get a cup of coffee go in my office and start working. I found that not only was I more productive but typically I put in more hours. There are many pluses to work from home. It save gas, wear and tear on my car, I can let my dog out (now she waits 12 hours), less dry cleaning, and food is there when it's lunch time instead of making it the night before. In the office cube, there are several people that do not understand that there is an inside voice and an outside voice. Their main purpose seems to be to socialize. What stops me from telecommuting? In short, my company. Not everyone actually works when they "work from home" and it has had an impact on those of us who do. The only benefit to be in an office is that the people who are seen are promoted.
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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 feel that I'm more productive on those occasions when I work from home. I make more of a conscious effort to be more productive to make sure (1) I don't abuse the system (b) others don't assume that I'm abusing the system. I have broadband at home. I use my work laptop to VPN into the corporate infrastructure. It is just like I'm in the office with all my tools and resources at my fingertips. - Nearly every single day that I go into the office, I contemplate staying at home to work. The thing that gets me to go to the office? Our noon running group. Three of the days are social runs and two are hard workouts. Both types of runs motivate me to endure the commute and the office. The older I get, the greater role this run serves to get me into the office. Larry
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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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Nothing, that's what I do, but being fair, the work I do is give support for a software; that, honestly, can be done anywhere in the world as long as I have access to an internet connection and a laptop.
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