On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Meike Reichle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> things to offer that others may not (I'm not talking about apple pie >> here) also research (e.g. Relinking Life and Work by Rhona Rapoport and >> Lotte Bailyn) shows that work/life balance measures such as flexible >> work times don't only benefit mothers and fathers but all employees. > > In the long term, definitely. I'm personnally much more happy to allow > the female component of my team (8 people, 1 woman...) to take some > time off because she's been called in urgency to get her child at home > because of illness or whatever. The same stands as well for the only > male component who still has young children.
We debian folk work with highly connected debian system of awesome. Being at home does mean we're a little harder to contact, but not by much. My company has an internal irc server on which most communication happens. A good number of my team are not in the same city, or same country as myself. I'd say most of us can get a far amount of work down on the couch with a laptop inbetween looking after a vomiting child. Likewise, we can work at non-conventional hours. I imagine that once the kids are in bed, you can get a bit of work done with same laptop on same couch while watching a couple episodes of Heroes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
