I don't want to appear to be lobbying for a position I don't necessarily hold, but as I said earlier, there is no tool yet invented to completely supplant regular *informal* office interaction. As Tom Brennan said, working across from someone invites casual *unplanned* communication that can be vital.
War story. I once got a call from an auditor (!!!) saying that he had just started a JES2 audit in another data center and found that one of the JES2 PROCLIB data sets was missing. Say what? Impossible! I logged on there and sure enough, it was nowhere to be found. Contacted a colleague who worked there daily. He had received a request from an application group to delete a procedure library that they owned but no longer needed for testing. My colleague, the nicest most accommodating guy you can imagine, obliged. He was not a JES2 guy, but he knew how to satisfy a client. All of this transpired miraculously within a few hours. No intervening JES2 restart. Problem fixed before disaster hit. I can't prove it of course, but I believe that if we had been in the same proximity, I would have caught wind of what was happening in time to intervene. He had not contacted me because he didn't think there would be a problem. That's the rub. Colocation is as much about what you learn accidentally that can save your bacon. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gord Tomlin Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 1:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Looks like lots of folks in marketing said thanks but no thanks On 2017-05-25 12:58, Burrell, Todd wrote: > I've always said that if you think you need someone in the office so you can > make sure they are working - then you hired the wrong person. Bad employees > will goof off whether they are in the office or at home. And I get a LOT > more done from home than I ever do in the office because there are no > distractions at home like at the office. > > And the old "water cooler" argument about learning a lot from discussions in > the office has a little merit, but not much. Most of the times these > discussions quickly wonder off into personal discussions. Well put. To add to the above, the time spent traveling to/from the office (it would be about 8 hours a week for me if I went to the office 5 days a week) is time just thrown away. It's 2017 now, and there are plenty of tools available that provide pretty immersive collaboration environments. Check out ChatOps as a concept, and products like Slack, Mattermost or HipChat. Even with more basic products like Skype or WhatsApp, it is absolutely possible to achieve collaborative work without physically being in the same building. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
