We were able to work from home until last year. According to management's
explanation "productivity had deteriorated"Now, we all make the trek to the
office. A lot of people were caught in a bind because their homes were about
50 -70 miles away from the city center. Others had to scramble to find daycare
for their toddlers. An immense strain and hardship was exacted on us because
we now have to pay expensive transportation costs etc. But as we are reminded
by management to "count our blessings and we are lucky to have a job". Amen
!!!!!
On Thursday, August 22, 2019, 02:55:34 a.m. GMT-4, Ron Hawkins
<ron.hawk...@ipsicsopt.com> wrote:
Charles,
It may be a bit different for a test environment, but up until I left
Hitachi last year, I was the only MF person that split time between home and
the office.
A year later, the MF itself has moved, and none of the testers works on
site. When I left they were located in both US states and another country. I
am doing some contract work for them n and split my time between Australia
and Philippines.
I liked to have our team to train and work face to face occasionally and had
regular fly-ins of the team for a week. California killed this off as they
want to declare you a tax resident if you spend more than 60 calendar days
in the state. Tell that to someone from Nevada.
RON HAWKINS
Director, Ipsicsopt Pty Ltd (ACN: 627 705 971)
m+61 400029610| t: +1 4085625415 | f: +1 4087912585
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of
Charles Mills
Sent: Thursday, 22 August 2019 06:46
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from
home?
I am doing a favor for a friend who is writing a blog article on the above
subject, with an emphasis on the effect of the shrinking mainframe personnel
pool. (This is NOT some disguised headhunter pitch. Reply to the list or to
me personally. I will take full responsibility for "sanitizing" your e-mail
address and so forth out of what I forward to my friend.)
Does your employer allow mainframe sysprogs and developers to work from
home?
Any particular restrictions or qualifications?
Have they changed their policies specifically to address the shrinking
mainframe personnel pool?
Roughly what percentage of your colleagues work from home?
Thanks!
Charles
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email
to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
