I worked for a place that did remote employees.. Get IM called brosix it will
let you do remote meetings and all that good stuff will also let you view his
history remote..
Then get a good ticketing system that let's him put down what he did that day
and sync every night then if you ever feel he might be cheating the company
you can compare his work log with hours reported
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:01 PM, D. Ryan Spott <rsp...@irongoat.net>
wrote:
> It is more a management issue than a remote employee issue.
> Get some sort of IM system that shows availability. (Skype, AIM etc)
> This allows everyone to know where everyone is all the time. If it
> supports video and screen sharing then even better.
> Be flexible on hours and focus on him more like a salaried employee.
> Have him work within your daily core hours but allow for late arrival or
> taking time off in the middle of the day to do something for his kid or
> working late or whatever as long as things average out to around 40
> hours a week... They will normally average around 45-50 if you are generous.
> Arrange for quarterly or half yearly trips back to the farm so everyone
> can see everyone else get beers etc.
> If you do this well and your employee gets used to working from home
> with all of the freedoms it give him then you will not have to give this
> guy a raise for a long time as other jobs will not be able to compete.
> ryan
> On 1/22/14 5:27 PM, heith petersen wrote:
>> I have a tech who does real light field work, who mostly works at a
>> desk in my office. He usually handles the customer BS, like phone tech
>> support above what we let our held desk handle, as well as radio
>> configuration and updates and support to my field techs. Due to recent
>> personal issues he is moving 4 hours away. We figure, since he doesn't
>> have a job yet and can get good high speed service, we might try to do
>> a gig with us remotely. I would tunnel him into the net, access to
>> billing, and a VoIP phone to our system, basically use him just like I
>> do now, just no physical presence.
>> Anyone else doing this or have past experience with this? If so, was
>> it positive or total nightmare? We are trying to figure out how to
>> base compensation. Right now he is hourly, I can see time tracking
>> could be a pain. In reality he could just sit there and play solitaire
>> all day if I don't have any calls for him or any network upgrades.
>> Anyways I appreciate your thoughts. I lean on him pretty hard to take
>> care of BS that I shouldn't have to deal with. Without him I see some
>> pretty long days ahead. And I cant afford to keep a field tech in the
>> office, though I have a guy that would rather sit on ass and talk to
>> customers as opposed to doing field work.
>> thanks
>> heith
>>
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