On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 7:04 AM, Rich Kulawiec <r...@gsp.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 05:35:45PM -0700, Scott Weeks wrote: >> One day, hopefully, telecommuting really takes off [...] > > It often strikes me as incredibly ironic that companies which *would > not exist* were it not for the Internet are among the most resistant > to the simple, obvious concept that telecommuting allows them to hire > the best and brightest regardless of geography. > > Telecommuting should not be a rare exception: it should be the default. > And "corporate headquarters" should be as small and inexpensive as possible, > staffed (in person) only by a handful of people -- if even that. Asking > net admins to do stupid, wasteful, expensive things like "commute 3 hours > a day" and "live in areas with ridiculously inflated housing prices" is a > good way to filter *out* the employees one would most like to have.
Something like 40% of IBM'ers telecommute, saving IBM $2.9B (if you believe some PR). And IBM is about as large and bloated, report heavy, mgmt heavy, conference call heavy, that a company can get. :-) -Jim P.