> On May 25, 2017, at 3:52 PM, Gord Tomlin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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. > > ———————————SNIP———————————————
I do not know anything about the products you mentioned but if they are like I am guessing, thanks but no thanks. Typing is (to me) intensive and typing up an inquiry about something someone is working on *AND* having to reply is too time consuming. Talk is more spontaneous and with the associated inflections that do not come across in typing (don’t even bring up happy faces to me). Also, I have seen written discusions blow up because the key pad does not come with inflections built in. Just my opinion. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
