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roztaylor
join:2000-10-21
Madison, AL
 ·AT&T Yahoo
| Many companies don't trust
I sat in on a telework policy presentation, at my company, several years ago.
The audience was mostly employees, but there were several supervisors. The only supervisors who spoke out, during the discussion period, were the ones that were against teleworking by their employees. comments were made like "not only do they want to work from home, but they will want to earn comp time and overtime too" and other less pointed comments that I interpreted as "I don't trust my employees to work their full shift if they are at home"
We have several employees who have to work at multiple locations. A perfect situation for docking stations and laptops you would think...NO! When I suggested laptops for those employees, I was told that it wasn't feasible. So, those employees have to synchronize their files between at least two computers (sometimes 3 or 4). And, our IT folks couldn't help them with that. Until last month, the savvy ones could map to whichever computer they considered their "primary" computer to maintain some control (if slow) over file proliferation. But, last month that was stopped for security reasons.
I don't know, but I think the real reason they won't issue laptops is because they are "afraid" the employee might use the computer for personal stuff in addition to work.
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cableties
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join:2005-01-27
 ·Verizon FIOS
| said by roztaylor  :...But, last month that was stopped for security reasons. I don't know, but I think the real reason they won't issue laptops is because they are "afraid" the employee might use the computer for personal stuff in addition to work. BINGO!
-Security
-Personal Use
-Cost for additional support
-Theft
-Liability
-Assessment
There are pluses and minuses to Telework and Telecommuting. Not all companies have the need, however. If your business model is consulting or programming, then it is a given (code from home; login and work...).
Alas, where companies are big, and need to "watch" what is said, emailed, accessed... it comes down to what is best for the company, not the employee.
Some bean counters were responsible for a report and it likely showed that the savings in "productivity and happy worker bees" was overshadowed in the cost to support it. | |
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