Re: Semi-OT: telecommuting & web development

I'm actually going back to my home country (Russia, yes, I know my name
isn't Russian) in August for 8 months and I've convinced my company to
allow me to work remotely for the time. Their biggest concern was my
ability to attend meetings, they like to meet about every little detail
here, but luckily we have video conferencing equipment and VoIP. I will
also be getting email to my cell phone there as the time difference is 9
hours.

For myself I feel this little inconvenience is worth it, and I do find
that I get more work done when people aren't constantly asking me
questions.

>From my experience aranging this I got the impression that most of the
concern is just that factor of control, they don't want you going to the
beach when you should be working or telling them it took you all day to
do a 1 hour task. But if you don't trust your employees then why hire
them, but I can see not trusting a new hire. Sadly there are a lot of
dishonest people that would like to be paid to do nothing all day.

-- 
Scott Downing <sdowning-44oa8dZYi30C0E6/esFX4Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> > On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 07:25, Justin Koivisto wrote:
> > 
> >>Greg Jorgensen wrote:
> >>
> >>>Applicants must be located in the Twin Cities area.
> >>
> >>Why? Do companies down there (the cities) actually think they will get 
> >>better results if they hire someone less than X miles from their shop? 
> >>How many of you telecommute in your job (especially if you do web 
> >>development)? Even up here in the woods (~4 north of you), we do a lot 
> >>through email, phone (and occasionally) web cam. I can't be lead to 
> >>believe that our small communities are more technologically advanced 
> >>than web development companies down there.
> >>
> >>I've always thought that web development was the perfect business to do 
> >>from afar. Sure, you may need to meet sometimes in person, but most 
> >>things can be done through other means.
> >>
> >>Is this "need to be local" thing specific to the cities area, or do you 
> >>find this to be true across the US/World?
> >>
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