On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> I rush to point out that those stereotypes were *not* what I was on
> about in my "I'm really unsure about telecommuting" thing. I'm one of
> the gregarious types.
acknowledged ...
those 'stereotypes' where pretty extreme and I am sure there are other
issues on both sides
my basic thrust was however: don't discount any possibilities ... lets
open doors not close them before we even get there. Personally I am quite
happy to do the office based thing, I don;t have a problem with it. I
also enjoy doing the home thing.
Different working methods suit different people and different projects.
Surely the best outcome is success, success => happiness and happiness =>
enjoying what you are doing. One of the best things about having your own
consultancy is surely that there is no PHB laying down cast iron rules,
sure what we do has to make VERY good business sense and be based on
sound policies that we can all agree to but lets try and keep things
'open'. flexi-time, pinball machines, games room .. whatever .. if its
reasonable then do it.
The overiding thing should be 'make this the very best company to work
for AND the very best company to have work done by' A1 bleeding edge code
written by the planets happiest programmers ... sounds like a good recipe
to me.
--
Robin Szemeti
The box said "requires windows 95 or better"
So I installed Linux!
