I'm allowed a combination of home (mostly mornings) and office (I like the company food service). I've heard worker bees complain that laboring at home is too intense. No socially blessed conversations around the water cooler. No visiting with colleagues on topics that may or not be strictly job related. You have to work at giving yourself permission to chill.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 10:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home? I have worked REMOTE for years. I have no drive time, I can go down stairs and get a sandwich and a drink and be backup stairs in 5 min if I'm being slow about it. I live in WebEx all day, it you really, really need me they can call me cell. The down side is you have to have the mindset that you are a work and ignore all intrusions into your workspace unless it’s a true emergency. Steve -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 12:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home? I do agree that there is a higher level of responsibility required on the part of the remote worker to be "available" during the normal working hours and to be diligent about the work hours. Otherwise a perception may be developed that you may be less than productive if you are not responding to email/IM/phone calls in a similar fashion to "being in the office". I for one would embrace the flexible work location with certain ground rules set ahead of time for what things may require onsite, etc. As others have mentioned, there really are very few technical reasons anymore why someone needs to be onsite. One can waste time just as easily in the office as they can at home. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma AVP | Manager, Systems Engineering Fifth Third Bank | 1830 East Paris Ave, SE | MD RSCB2H | Grand Rapids, MI 49546 616.653.8429 | fax: 616.653.2717 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <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? **CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL** **DO NOT open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails** 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
