atw: Re: Welcome aboard, Rob : sequed towards remote work...

  • From: Andrew Jeffery <apj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:57:48 +1000

As a contractor, I have had the same problem. Some managers are great
while other equate 'working from home' as a day off. 

Surely as roads and public transport are more congested, as well as
rents going up, they will be forced to consider it more. 

I love working from home and I achieve more. Bring it on.



On Wed, Jun 9th, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Allan Charlton
<allancharlton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Peter said
>  > As far as I can see, the main cause of this is that managers have
> no 
> idea of how to measure productivity unless someone arrives in the
> office 
> at 9 and leaves at 5 or some appropriate later time.   It's a threat
> to 
> managerial control somehow, apparently.
> 
> That's been my experience. I have approached a few employers and 
> received one or other of what appear to be stock answers:
> "If you're not here we can't be sure you're working"
> "Nobody works from home. It's policy."
> 
> Managers get progress updates, and most of us attend project meetings
> - 
> and yet they claim they don't know we're working if they can't watch
> us 
> typing. I once posted a cartoon on my cubicle, in which Dilbert
> points 
> out that it doesn't matter whether he's at home or in the office
> because 
> the manager doesn't know if he's working when he's in the office. 
> Management got offended and took the cartoon down, so I guess it made
> 
> its point.
> 
> Allan
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