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mikenolan7
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There are even more unseen benefits:
I worked in a job with the phone ringing non-stop, and people sitting outside my office, waiting to get in when the ones in there were finished. When I had important deadlines to meet, I would tell my Admin that I was going home so I could get some work done. When I needed time to think, or do some analysis or writing, that was the only way I could get time to concentrate.
Another example: I had a very valuable employee, suffer kidney failure. Well after he had "recovered" he still needed to spend several hours a day, twice a week, at the hospital hooked up to a dialysis machine. He was coming back to work and asked me if I could arrange flexible hours to accommodate the hospital's schedules - they have limited equipment. I asked if he would be able to work while on the dialysis machine. He said yes, so I made arrangements to have those hours count towards his workweek, so he didn't have to waste his off hours stuck in the hospital. Didn't cost me a thing - I knew he would work for that time. A few simple gestures like that can help build a very loyal workforce. | |
Jafo232
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Telecommuting for a few years now. I really see no downside. I work harder, get more done, and it keeps one parent in the house eliminating the latch key for the kids. The savings in day care alone is like a huge raise.
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| As far as everywhere I've worked, the only people I've seen who are against telecommuting are the meddling micromanaging types who never trust anybody - and this is usually a reflection on the manager, not their subordinates. The paranoid middle managers who usually are the most clueless in their own jobs are often the ones who refuse to trust someone to do their job correctly.
It also goes to say that if a manager cannot trust his or her professional employees to handle ther time responsibly, then didn't that manager make a mistake hiring them in the first place?
I currently work in government contracting, and that's a tough call as far as telecommuting goes. The smarter, more up-to-date contractors absolutely understand the benefits of telecommuting; however when you work with the gov't and military, many clients want to "see the troops at the crack of dawn", if for nothing but the very reassurance that they're there. They don't like flex time, either.. You're a morning person to military clients, or you don't belong there. Kind of silly, really.
(Of course, you can't telecommute to do classified work, but that's another issue.)
I've never heard a really good argument against telecommuting. It usually comes back to "well, if you give people too much freedom, they'll screw around." We're talking about adults here, for the most part. If you give them freedom and they screw around, you didn't hire well, or they have good reason to screw around once they're out from under your magnifying glass. If you're not treating your employees well, that'll manifest itself in other ways - in the office or out. | |
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