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| Cake and eat it too? Let's argue the fact that a teleworker is "entitled" to "communications" compensation...or isn't.
You get to work at home. Your time is compensated. How you get to work, is not. (I am not paid "keyhole to keyhole" to drive to work; nor am I paid for my use of the car to get to work and leave. I can be reimbursed for mileage if I use my personal vehicle for business use).
Then there is the tax penalty (some states/cities will penalize you for tax in telecommuting...you live in their tax area, and you work in another...scary!).
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| I was reimbursed for access to work computer systems from home. The company paid for a 2nd phone line(this was back in the old dial-up days). But it wasn't meant to be telecommuting. It was for being on call 24x7 and to cut the response time to solve computer & network problems. Instead of spending 40 mins driving to the office, I could start working on the problem immediately.
I suspect this decision by IBM will have a negative effect on morale for those employees who are always on call and use their broadband connection to react quickly to problems. They will still have to do their jobs, but they might not put their whole heart in it after another cut in overall compensation.
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Worst they will be compensated for their broadband and those who have the discipline to get up in the morning and go to the office will be out of luck. |
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 TamaraBQuestion The Current ParadigmPremium
join:2000-11-08
Da Bronx
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| said by Scatcatpdx: ... those who have the discipline to get up in the morning and go to the office will be out of luck. Now that I am retired, I do ALL of my free-lance work online. You speak of "discipline". Most people who work from home bill less time than they would if they were on a clock, sitting at their desk. If I get hung up on an issue which I believe "I should of known", or if I daydream for 15 minutes, or talk to my kid on the phone for 5 minutes, I do not bill the "wasted, personal time". If I were on the clock in an office, that time would, by default, show up in my paycheck.
Why is everything so one-way, lopsided, and skewed in favor of IBMs profits in this thread? Don't you people want to better your lot in life? Isn't a better life part of the American dream? Or is that dead too?
Bob
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 tschmidtPremium,MVM
join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
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1 edit | said by TamaraB:Why is everything so one-way, lopsided, and skewed in favor of IBMs profits in this thread? I think issue hinges on whether or not Broadband is dedicated solely for work and how much it costs.
When I first got broadband SDSL it cost $150 a month. Worked out a deal with my then employer to split the difference. Jump forward a decade to much faster ADSL that only costs $30 a month for 6 times the speed.
I think it's only fair if company requires employee obtain certain services/products that are solely for company business they pick up the tab. On the other hand if company business piggybacks on service/product employee likely already has and involves no incremental cost to employee putting it on the employee's nickel is reasonable.
/tom
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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+1 on that. I do a bit of work in an office of sorts, and I do freelance-ish work from home, or wherever I happen to be at the time (yay WMWiFiRouter!). I end up off the clock a lot more when I'm not in the office, that's just how it works. Productivity per dollar goes up that way. |
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