I've always said that if you think you need someone in the office so you can make sure they are working - then you hired the wrong person. Bad employees will goof off whether they are in the office or at home. And I get a LOT more done from home than I ever do in the office because there are no distractions at home like at the office.
And the old "water cooler" argument about learning a lot from discussions in the office has a little merit, but not much. Most of the times these discussions quickly wonder off into personal discussions. Todd Burrell | Sr. Mainframe Systems Administrator -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 9:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Looks like lots of folks in marketing said thanks but no thanks 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 This email transmission and any accompanying attachments may contain CSX privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the intended addressee. Any dissemination, distribution, copying or action taken in reliance on the contents of this email by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please immediately delete it and notify sender at the above CSX email address. Sender and CSX accept no liability for any damage caused directly or indirectly by receipt of this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
