2 days a week requires commutability. For example, I go to Hursley about once a fortnight (and none of my team are there at present). It's about 90 minutes each way, which is OK. Just.
The rest of the time I'm at home or on the road. Cheers, Martin Sent from my iPad > On 26 May 2017, at 09:14, Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote: > > Steve Smith wrote: >> A symphony can hardly be performed with everyone working remotely.... > > If you're thinking of a live concert performance, OK. However, the recorded > music industry doesn't always, or even very often, operate with every > musician in the same room performing at the same time. > > Frank Swarbrick mentioned a two days per week office schedule. That's an > important point. There are many percentages available between 0% and 100% > office v. home office work. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. If an > employer thinks that face-to-face employee "water cooler" interactions are > valuable, OK, but *how* valuable? Can employers capture most or all of that > value if employees are working in an office setting, say, every second full > week every month and working from home offices otherwise? Yes, probably so. > > One of the advantages of reducing office desk space is that it "forces" > employees who ought to be client-facing to be more client-facing, to spend > more and better time with clients. > > Anyway, there are pros and cons to every work arrangement, but working from > home offices >0% of the time often makes business sense. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Timothy Sipples > IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA > E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
