Having worked both at home and at the office, my opinions are: 1. Meetings at the coffee point (and other places) is very big opportunity to exchange ideas, thoughts, opinions. - This is true, as long as you have a motivated/enthusiastic tech team. Otherwise, they will talk about ANYTHING other than work (not that it wouldn't add any value though - being brazilian, I tend to value a lot people's inter-relationships).
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. - I've never been a manager, so I don't really know, but I have worked with managers that didn't care about seeing employees (not even close to top contributors) on facebook/youtube in the office during regular work hours. And I also have worked with people that are observably WAY more productive working from home than at the office. That's, in fact, my case, although I recognize the value of being at the office. I agree that if you need watch an employee that closely, you simply hired the wrong person. 3. Some people do work more effectively when they have no external "disturbants" (a dog, neighbour, postman, favourite comedy on TV...) - I found it more distubing to be at the office (too loud, too many people walking around, too "available" for management queries, etc ), than at home. It's a matter of letting people at home (and yourself, of course) know that you're just physically there, but you're simply OFF for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Lucas Rosalen* Emails: rosalen.lu...@gmail.com / *lrosa...@pl.ibm.com <lrosa...@br.ibm.com>* LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/in/lrosalen Phone: +48 (71) 792 809 198 2017-05-30 0:46 GMT-03:00 Gabe Goldberg <g...@gabegold.com>: > It's amazing what technology can do: http://ericwhitacre.com/the-vi > rtual-choir > > https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_whitacre_a_virtual_choir_2_ > 000_voices_strong > > ...not symphony, but still remote collaboration. > > Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> quoted > > Steve Smith who wrote: > > > A symphony can hardly be performed with everyone working remotely.... > > -- > Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com > 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold Twitter: GabeG0 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
