Hi, This story came across recently
HP Cuts Back On Telecommuting (San Jose Mercury News) http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/nw3e0IJmTh0G4n0EZgD0En http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/14732974.htm The company that pioneered flexible workforce practices more than 40 years ago has changed its mind about IT workers: They need to come back into the fold or find work elsewhere. This seems to be a continued theme in corporate America. Back in April of 2003 SBC put the squeeze on with a telecommuting crackdown. This was reported in InfoWorld that employees who had worked for several years from home offices located more than an hour from any SBC office were told come in or quit. The same drill now being run at HP and other companies. This befuddles me since I really expect that if you hire talented people who work well geographically dispersed it is cheaper and you are stronger. If an individual cannot handle working without close supervision maybe you should let them go or deal with the individual and move them into an office environment... where they can goof off and reduce other's productivity too:-) Seriously this is the opposite of where I thought the knowledge workforce was going. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO Performance and Availability Management mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (office) 301.986.3574 Quote from the Boss... "I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you." ==================== This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
