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

  • From: Howard Silcock <howard.silcock@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 15:33:27 +1000

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>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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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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> 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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