The reason it is not more accepted is too many people still think "If I cannot see you you must not be working."
Since I like to work and code (I spend 10 hours a day on the computer at the office, think about work related stuff in the shower, and often write Perl code at home to deal with various household tasks) I work quite well at home. There are more distractions at the office and my productivity is greater in my home computer room during those times I have to put in some extra for the office. Actually, the best reason I have for working from home is I work much better when naked and they have asked me to stop showing up that way at the office. On Thursday, December 01, 2011 01:47:22 PM Scott Weeks wrote: > ---- On 12/1/2011 10:21 AM, Leigh Porter wrote: --------- > > > I am looking for just such a person now. Good Juniper, some Cisco and > > Sysadmin experience with an ISP background.. > > [...] > > > So if anybody is looking for something to do around London... > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > > Something I'd like to tell hiring folks lurking out there based on my > experiences from living on an island far from population centers where > all the jobs are... :-) > > One way to get such folks, as described in the previous posts, is to allow > telecommuting. Have them come into the main office immediately after > hiring them for 3-4 months, evaluate them and show them what's expected. > Then let them go home to telecommute and have them come into the office a > couple/few times a year for a week or two each time. They can even be > required to work the same hours as the location where all the other > engineers are. Or, on the big networks folks living in places like Hawaii > can be the carry-over shift from US timezone to Asian timezones. This > allows for a more productive employee many times because they are enjoying > life where they live, rather than be forced into the larger population > centers. > > In our industry, especially with all the tools we have today, it would seem > that telecommuting would be more accepted, but it's not and I don't > understand why. > > scott -- David Radcliffe Network Engineer/Linux Specialist da...@davidradcliffe.org www.davidradcliffe.org Nothing ever gets solved better with panic. If you do not know the answer, it is probably "42."
