Comments on: Telecommuting: Why Working from Home Just Makes Sense http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/10/telecommuting-why-working-from-home-just-makes-sense.html News for Consumers in Changing Times Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Q http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/10/telecommuting-why-working-from-home-just-makes-sense.html/comment-page-1#comment-959 John Q Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:42:00 +0000 http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/10/telecommuting-why-working-from-home-just-makes-sense.html#comment-959 Of course if I could work from home it would be awesome. I work a Systems Administrator/Help Desk for my company, and everything I do is over the phone, through email, and through remote desktop support. There's no need for me to be at work, or at least 8 - 5 Mon-Fri. Of course if I could work from home it would be awesome. I work a Systems Administrator/Help Desk for my company, and everything I do is over the phone, through email, and through remote desktop support. There’s no need for me to be at work, or at least 8 – 5 Mon-Fri.

]]> By: vh http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/10/telecommuting-why-working-from-home-just-makes-sense.html/comment-page-1#comment-955 vh Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:24:00 +0000 http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/10/telecommuting-why-working-from-home-just-makes-sense.html#comment-955 About ninety percent of my job can be done online. And in fact, I was telecommuting officially one day a week and often extending that to two or even three days. The university where I work is a 30- to 40-minute drive-&-hike from my house--if I avoid the rush hour; during rush hour, the commute can reach two hours. it consumes more than an eighth of a tank of gas in the minivan I must use, and disabled parking, which I no longer can afford on what the university is now paying me, is around $800; next year it goes to almost $900.<br/><br/>Our dean recently announced that NO ONE henceforth will be allowed to telecommute. Why? Because people whose jobs don't lend themselves to remote working were envious and complained. Since he couldn't explain why a person who can do most of the job online should be allowed to work remotely while another person whose job is to meet the public should have to work on campus, he decided that everyone will have to drive in to the campus, every day, five days a week.<br/><br/>This is at the same university that hands out free bus passes (two hours going from my house; two hours ten minutes returning), begs people to carpool, jacks up the parking fees to try to force people out of their cars, and as a matter of policy encourages telecommuting.<br/><br/>Makes sense, eh? About ninety percent of my job can be done online. And in fact, I was telecommuting officially one day a week and often extending that to two or even three days. The university where I work is a 30- to 40-minute drive-&-hike from my house–if I avoid the rush hour; during rush hour, the commute can reach two hours. it consumes more than an eighth of a tank of gas in the minivan I must use, and disabled parking, which I no longer can afford on what the university is now paying me, is around $800; next year it goes to almost $900.

Our dean recently announced that NO ONE henceforth will be allowed to telecommute. Why? Because people whose jobs don’t lend themselves to remote working were envious and complained. Since he couldn’t explain why a person who can do most of the job online should be allowed to work remotely while another person whose job is to meet the public should have to work on campus, he decided that everyone will have to drive in to the campus, every day, five days a week.

This is at the same university that hands out free bus passes (two hours going from my house; two hours ten minutes returning), begs people to carpool, jacks up the parking fees to try to force people out of their cars, and as a matter of policy encourages telecommuting.

Makes sense, eh?

]]> By: Lise http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/10/telecommuting-why-working-from-home-just-makes-sense.html/comment-page-1#comment-954 Lise Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:11:00 +0000 http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/10/telecommuting-why-working-from-home-just-makes-sense.html#comment-954 Hmmm... I would love to be able to work from home, but at the same time I wonder if I'm that kind of person who is productive without supervision. On one hand, I'd like to say I'm "differently" productive (i.e. I take lots of breaks, multi-task, and am able to work over a longer period of time as a result), but I haven't had the chance to really prove myself... my company rarely allows us to telecommute for more than a day at a stretch. Hmmm… I would love to be able to work from home, but at the same time I wonder if I’m that kind of person who is productive without supervision. On one hand, I’d like to say I’m “differently” productive (i.e. I take lots of breaks, multi-task, and am able to work over a longer period of time as a result), but I haven’t had the chance to really prove myself… my company rarely allows us to telecommute for more than a day at a stretch.

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