> On May 26, 2017, at 3:19 AM, Martin Packer <martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com> wrote: > > > 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 ———————SNIP—————————————————
Each person/company has their own needs if it works for both of you, congratulations. I suppose if all you do is dump analyzing I could see it might work, with some caveats. But the systems programming environments that I have worked in, it doesn’t. At one job they had a person that worked remotely and to be honest I never knew what the person was working on. The big downfall with that situation is that she had a connection that was at best iffy for weeks at a time. The senior had to go out in the field to try and resolve her connection issues, talk about loss of productivity for two people (this occurred 10 times at least in two months). I personally cannot see an installation of a new OS of ever working. As meeting with application types over a problem it the only way I can see it working is with Skype or some such method as to whether you can see each other face to face. Forget about team meetings as there is no sense of teamonship, for example at one place where I worked one of the sysprogs wanted to have the company pay for a class for JAVA. He was turned down (I thought unfairly), I spoke up and suggested that the company review their education policy as it needed to move forward in its thinking, that it wasn’t about just Mainframes and UNIX was melding in now. Once I spoke up the rest of the group backed me up. The boss said he work rethink his position. If we all hadn’t of sensed what was going on in the room the conversation would have ended with the “no”. I suppose if you are a follower then remote working is feasible, I just don’t see it as a long term viable option. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
