Well, it is not my company, so let's leave the decision to the owners and managers they hired.
However if it was my company I would demand to be present in the office. Some well justified exceptions apply, but mostly temporarily, and everytime final decision would belong to managers, not employees. Reasons? 1. Meetings at the coffee point (and other places) is very big opportunity to exchange ideas, thoughts, opinions. 2. It is much easier to see and control how the emploee spends a time - is he really busy as declared? No timesheet replace it. 3. Some people do work more effectively when they have no external "disturbants" (a dog, neighbour, postman, favourite comedy on TV...) BTW: most of my co-workers claim they absolutely prefer to work in the office, with the team. BTW2: multi-site office is still better than home working, We do have good video-chat systems for in conference rooms, except personal a/v equipment in every PC. My 0,02€ -- R.Skorupka Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
