Comments on: Do you telework? http://greenmonk.net/do-you-telework/ Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:38:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Jeff Barr’s Blog » Links for Wednesday, August 6, 2008 http://greenmonk.net/do-you-telework/comment-page-1/#comment-3640 Jeff Barr’s Blog » Links for Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:19:46 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=261#comment-3640 [...] Tom Raftery: Do You Telework? - “Personally, I love working out of home and at this point I’d find it very hard to going back to working from a central office. Working from home means I can be far more productive. I can (and often do) stay working on long after the typical 9-5 workday.“ [...] [...] Tom Raftery: Do You Telework? - “Personally, I love working out of home and at this point I’d find it very hard to going back to working from a central office. Working from home means I can be far more productive. I can (and often do) stay working on long after the typical 9-5 workday.“ [...]

]]> By: Jeff Barr’s Blog » Links for Wednesday, August 6, 2008 http://greenmonk.net/do-you-telework/comment-page-1/#comment-3641 Jeff Barr’s Blog » Links for Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:19:46 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=261#comment-3641 [...] Tom Raftery: Do You Telework? - “Personally, I love working out of home and at this point I’d find it very hard to going back to working from a central office. Working from home means I can be far more productive. I can (and often do) stay working on long after the typical 9-5 workday.“ [...] [...] Tom Raftery: Do You Telework? - “Personally, I love working out of home and at this point I’d find it very hard to going back to working from a central office. Working from home means I can be far more productive. I can (and often do) stay working on long after the typical 9-5 workday.“ [...]

]]> By: TravisV http://greenmonk.net/do-you-telework/comment-page-1/#comment-3613 TravisV Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:43:42 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=261#comment-3613 I think some of the disadvantages of teleworking include: * A state of perpetual work - after working from home for about 12 months, I found myself always in front of the computer. There was some sort of weird guilt thing, or sense of feeling like I was going to screw up because the leash was too long, so I went overboard in the other direction. Not sure I describe the psychosis properly, but I've heard others describe similar. * Very easy access to food and beer - some might put this on the "cons" list. But seriously - being at home and just casually deciding to grill a burger and drink a cold one for lunch. Multiply that over many months, and the gut just can't support that kind of intake over a long period of time. After a while my kankles started hurting when I hobbled outside to fire up the grill. * Too much of the same - after a while, I started to lose my mind in my home office. Every day exactly the same. Shuffle out of bed, coffee, then computer for 10 hours. Too many days where I wouldn't even set foot outside. * MLB extra innings is very dangerous - if you are a baseball fan and telecommuting, I cannot stress enough that you need to resist pulling the trigger on that MLB.com extra innings package. When you start knowing the play by play calls from announcers of teams you don't even like (White Sox home run: "You can put it on the boooaaard ... Yesss!" or White Sox strikeout: "Heeeegone") you are clinging to your sanity by a mere thread, my friend. With my wife now 8.5 months into pregnancy, I finally got an office down the street. It's about three quarters of a mile from our house. I've gotten back down to fighting shape. My attitude is a lot better. I'm enjoying the work / home separation and a lot more focused when I am working. Being able to do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it somehow takes a lot of the fun out of those whatevers you wanted to do. Huh? I think some of the disadvantages of teleworking include:

* A state of perpetual work - after working from home for about 12 months, I found myself always in front of the computer. There was some sort of weird guilt thing, or sense of feeling like I was going to screw up because the leash was too long, so I went overboard in the other direction. Not sure I describe the psychosis properly, but I’ve heard others describe similar.

* Very easy access to food and beer - some might put this on the “cons” list. But seriously - being at home and just casually deciding to grill a burger and drink a cold one for lunch. Multiply that over many months, and the gut just can’t support that kind of intake over a long period of time. After a while my kankles started hurting when I hobbled outside to fire up the grill.

* Too much of the same - after a while, I started to lose my mind in my home office. Every day exactly the same. Shuffle out of bed, coffee, then computer for 10 hours. Too many days where I wouldn’t even set foot outside.

* MLB extra innings is very dangerous - if you are a baseball fan and telecommuting, I cannot stress enough that you need to resist pulling the trigger on that MLB.com extra innings package. When you start knowing the play by play calls from announcers of teams you don’t even like (White Sox home run: “You can put it on the boooaaard … Yesss!” or White Sox strikeout: “Heeeegone”) you are clinging to your sanity by a mere thread, my friend.

With my wife now 8.5 months into pregnancy, I finally got an office down the street. It’s about three quarters of a mile from our house. I’ve gotten back down to fighting shape. My attitude is a lot better. I’m enjoying the work / home separation and a lot more focused when I am working. Being able to do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it somehow takes a lot of the fun out of those whatevers you wanted to do. Huh?

]]> By: April Dunford http://greenmonk.net/do-you-telework/comment-page-1/#comment-3609 April Dunford Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:48:02 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=261#comment-3609 Thanks for the link Tom. We put that one together as part of a social media release we did a few weeks back around teleworking (http://tinyurl.com/5gb6wk ). The response we got to that release was really quite amazing both in terms of press coverage as well as the dialogue it started inside Nortel. Inside Nortel I am continuously stopped in the elevator, in the hall, in the bathroom (Hey, you with the black shoes, are you the teleworking lady? I'm not kidding), by employees that tell me that it was a key reason they chose to work at Nortel and how it's improved their life not having to come to work everyday. I'm like you - I've been teleworking (part-time in my case) for years and I couldn't imagine going back to an office full time. Companies need to get their heads around the advantages of having a formal telework program. Thanks for the link Tom. We put that one together as part of a social media release we did a few weeks back around teleworking (http://tinyurl.com/5gb6wk ). The response we got to that release was really quite amazing both in terms of press coverage as well as the dialogue it started inside Nortel. Inside Nortel I am continuously stopped in the elevator, in the hall, in the bathroom (Hey, you with the black shoes, are you the teleworking lady? I’m not kidding), by employees that tell me that it was a key reason they chose to work at Nortel and how it’s improved their life not having to come to work everyday.
I’m like you - I’ve been teleworking (part-time in my case) for years and I couldn’t imagine going back to an office full time. Companies need to get their heads around the advantages of having a formal telework program.

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