PROS
Got much more done, or at least thats how it appeared
Better coffee/tea/snacks in the house.
No hour long drive to/from work
Nobody can just wander up to your desk to get you to do something.
I can start getting dinner ready for a reasonable hour for us both.
CONS
Although
I would like to add to this, also from a United Kingdom point of view.
I have found that the biggest issue has been the negative commenting from
other
workers who *have to* go into work. On the odd occasions when they try to
contact me and I
cannot for some reason get to the 'phone (responding
Wander over to www.techrepublic.com and check out there for thing that
justify allowing staff to telecommute. For those of you who don't know
Gartner are behind the site and so some interesting information comes to
light.
Mostly companies see a positive return because people don't take a
I work better at home as well, but I don't think it would ever fly here.
I could certainly push it if I wanted to. But I don't want to get into that
battle.
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if
both are frozen.
Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Fuelspot
At a previous company:
1. How did you handle accountability?
I hate to say it ... but we are professionals on a salaried basis ..
not hourly. We are expected to work 'x' hours. If we say we did ... then
they took us at our word. Those who abused it got found out sooner or
later.
How did you handle accountability?
If they can't trust you to do your work find another company.
And have some set goals you want to accomplish.
How
did you handle communication between work and home?
Email, cellphone
What were some of the
unforeseen problems that you encountered?
We only use Unix(Solaris) or Linux - no Windows NT.
This makes remote administration much easier.
I work closely with our System Administration team so
that I always have Secure Shell access to any machine
that I need to administer, as well as ssh w/ X forwarding
for any machine that I need to
I've never heard anyone dying say
I only wish I had spent more time at the office.
Joe
-Original Message-
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 3:00 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Hi All,
I have a few off-topic questions for those of you who are allowed to work
from home either
