1. Purely imaginary. Besides being too random to be useful, those "meetings" are about family, dogs, and favourite comedies. Business interaction is often better facilitated with electronic communication (see your #3). 2. Purely imaginary. You cannot "see" much of anything. A manager's job is to get results, not to baby-sit (monitor) their team. If the manager hires people who need to be constantly supervised, well then, that's on the manager. 3. Agreed. Every office I've worked in was apparently designed to prevent me from concentrating on anything. I'm far, far more productive in my quiet, distraction-free home office.
I also liked going to the office (mostly), and seeing everyone. But I was able to actually work maybe 50% of the time there. sas On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 2:57 AM, Radoslaw Skorupka < r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> wrote: > Well, it is not my company, so let's leave the decision to the owners and > managers they hired. > > However if it was my company I would demand to be present in the office. > Some well justified exceptions apply, but mostly temporarily, and everytime > final decision would belong to managers, not employees. > > Reasons? > 1. Meetings at the coffee point (and other places) is very big opportunity > to exchange ideas, thoughts, opinions. > 2. It is much easier to see and control how the emploee spends a time - is > he really busy as declared? No timesheet replace it. > 3. Some people do work more effectively when they have no external > "disturbants" (a dog, neighbour, postman, favourite comedy on TV...) > > BTW: most of my co-workers claim they absolutely prefer to work in the > office, with the team. > BTW2: multi-site office is still better than home working, We do have good > video-chat systems for in conference rooms, except personal a/v equipment > in every PC. > > My 0,02€ > > -- > R.Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- sas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
