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

  • From: LEWINGTON Warren <Warren_LEWINGTON@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:09:48 +1000

Anything over 45 minutes from my home. At quiet periods of the day or evening 
it can take as little as twenty five minutes. Given that the trip can take well 
over an hour depending on the traffic light fiascos we have near my home (it 
can take forty minutes to get through two intersections alone) and I drive a 
Falcon. That kind of enforced driving is damaging to the atmosphere, damaging 
to the vehicle, is stressful and just plain wasteful; I don't think its 
unreasonable.

Having been privileged to sit in a Canberra peak recently; then attempt to 
compare to Sydney is beyond ridiculous, you just can't do it. I wouldn't be 
bothered down where you are. But I might charge them extra if there were no 
storage and shower or change facilities for cyclists.

Regards
Warren Lewington
Technical Writer
Compliance and Enforcement Branch



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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Howard Silcock
Sent: Wednesday, 9 June 2010 3:33 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Welcome aboard, Rob : sequed towards remote work...

Warren said:

> I am charging them for anything over what I call a reasonable time to commute

Could you tell what a 'reasonable time' would be, or is that 
commercial-in-confidence? (I guess what's reasonable in Sydney would be very 
different from what's reasonable here in Canberra!)

Howard

On 9 June 2010 15:18, LEWINGTON Warren 
<Warren_LEWINGTON@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Warren_LEWINGTON@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
One of my current clients in Windsor is positively medieval about working from 
home, it takes over half an hour to get permission to do it, yet they are more 
than happy for the permanents to do it, some of whom live within walking 
distance of the workplace. So now, when I travel out there, I am charging them 
for anything over what I call a reasonable time to commute. I'll be damned if 
I'm going to put up with it.


Regards
Warren Lewington
Technical Writer
Compliance and Enforcement Branch


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

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<mailto: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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