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en102
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Re: Not at my company

I've been in the offices ~ 5 weeks in 4 years.

Upside: More flexible hours, save on gas, car wear. More family time, less wasted time on the road (Los Angeles is traffic hell).
Downside: Longer work hours (~10 hours/day is typical + paged off hours). Hard to keep track of management (i.e. not great for moving up the food chain), easier to be laid off if you don't make yourself extremely useful. Local annoyances (power/telco outages, house phone, neighbors, door bell, kids, etc.

Its a mixed bag, depending on the work you do.
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ninjatutle
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Re: Not at my company

Yeah, it is easy to be forgotten about if you're not in the office and easier to be laid off. Same if you're in one city and boss is in another.

I have a nice large home office in my residence but I can't get anything done. Too many distractions at home and I'm the sole occupant I think the only way I would get work done at home is if I put up cubicle walls, get a cubicle desk, cabinets and fluorescent overhead lighting to replicate the office.

If I have to catch up on things, I'll come in on a weekend afternoon when no one is in and I'll fly through the work. I can get so much done without the noises of the people, phone, etc.

en102
Canadian, eh?

join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA

Re: Not at my company

Hehe - I know exactly what you mean.
I've hooked up HDX101, and work out of my backyard gazebo 90% of the time - no house phone, no doorbell, no TV, no radio, etc.
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