Federal/State Government incentives Telecommuting trying to solve theirs
(also ours, of course) problems, such as traffic, transports, pollution,
gas shortage(future), massive people movements, security threats, etc...
Corporations, in the other hand, foresee lower office costs. Lower
footprint offices....
However , I think may the companies are considering the sinergy of
workers group. The interaction of people may be very creative and fast
responsive to problems IT are dealing with. What are they losing with
less present teams ? Have they felt something like less dedication ?
Nowadays even with fast connections/resources providing group
teleconferences, nothing is good as daily contact, eye contact, body
language perceptions, and all that king of PSI stuff.
I have worked with fine tech groups and I have worked with not-so-good
not-so-easy-to-deal ones..
I think that some tasks depends more on individual efforts and may be
telecommuted, but look: I said TASK not JOB.
PS; I am talking about people not about mvs internals, ;-)
I know some corporations that are trying to mix, balancing home-working
and presence-group-working.
Something like 2-day home, and 3-day-in-site for reunions, meetings,
contacts, project update, instructions etc...
Maybe someday in the future, with holographic teleconference ( when home
computers will be really helping domestic affairs), there will be
virtual corporations, and we will part of a virtual workgroup, a
virtual taskforce.
I only hope that I will have a real job and real salary (with a real
house and real wife too ! ) :-P
- JC -
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
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Imbriale, Don escreveu:
With increasing costs of gasoline and the ever-present cries to reduce
dependence on oil and the possibility of epidemics such as bird flu, now
would seem to be the best time to encourage telecommuting. If the US
Federal and state governments provided tax incentives to corporations who
implement telecommuting programs, I bet there would be a rush to get
employees to stay home.
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