Do you have to also go into the office for "off-hours" support? During an outage, I would expect that is when you are needed to be most productive so being on-site seems logical (according to the management explaination).
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 12:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home? We were able to work from home until last year. According to management's explanation "productivity had deteriorated"Now, we all make the trek to the office. A lot of people were caught in a bind because their homes were about 50 -70 miles away from the city center. Others had to scramble to find daycare for their toddlers. An immense strain and hardship was exacted on us because we now have to pay expensive transportation costs etc. But as we are reminded by management to "count our blessings and we are lucky to have a job". Amen !!!!! On Thursday, August 22, 2019, 02:55:34 a.m. GMT-4, Ron Hawkins <ron.hawk...@ipsicsopt.com> wrote: Charles, It may be a bit different for a test environment, but up until I left Hitachi last year, I was the only MF person that split time between home and the office. A year later, the MF itself has moved, and none of the testers works on site. When I left they were located in both US states and another country. I am doing some contract work for them n and split my time between Australia and Philippines. I liked to have our team to train and work face to face occasionally and had regular fly-ins of the team for a week. California killed this off as they want to declare you a tax resident if you spend more than 60 calendar days in the state. Tell that to someone from Nevada. RON HAWKINS Director, Ipsicsopt Pty Ltd (ACN: 627 705 971) m+61 400029610| t: +1 4085625415 | f: +1 4087912585 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Thursday, 22 August 2019 06:46 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home? I am doing a favor for a friend who is writing a blog article on the above subject, with an emphasis on the effect of the shrinking mainframe personnel pool. (This is NOT some disguised headhunter pitch. Reply to the list or to me personally. I will take full responsibility for "sanitizing" your e-mail address and so forth out of what I forward to my friend.) Does your employer allow mainframe sysprogs and developers to work from home? Any particular restrictions or qualifications? Have they changed their policies specifically to address the shrinking mainframe personnel pool? Roughly what percentage of your colleagues work from home? Thanks! Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
