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[yankee]

Summers are tough, but the silver lining is you are around to see your kids a lot. One thing that has helped me over the years, is that I have more or less "trained" other people to mail and contact me when I am most effective. I go hard in the mornings when the house is quiet and I can get a lot done, and over the years colleagues tend to contact me then, because they know I'm at my desk. This decreases the amount of calls and mails I get at 3-5pm when the kids and noise appear. It doesn't make it go away, but the pattern helps the lifestyle. Very few drawback in my opinion!

[Deadeye]

Here's one thing to note.... If you are ever on a video conference (using laptop with camera), make sure you are not laying on the bed in your underwear.... thinking you turned off the camera.
And your wife or girlfriend doesn't jump on the bed next to you... naked.

Dead

[bulldog ducker]

Here's one thing to note.... If you are ever on a video conference (using laptop with camera), make sure you are not laying on the bed in your underwear.... thinking you turned off the camera.
And your wife or girlfriend doesn't jump on the bed next to you... naked.

Dead

Were all calls recorded for quality and training purposes

[brake man]

Here's one thing to note.... If you are ever on a video conference (using laptop with camera), make sure you are not laying on the bed in your underwear.... thinking you turned off the camera.
And your wife or girlfriend doesn't jump on the bed next to you... naked.

Dead

Does't thou speaketh from person experience?

[jacksbuddy]

Here's one thing to note.... If you are ever on a video conference (using laptop with camera), make sure you are not laying on the bed in your underwear.... thinking you turned off the camera.
And your wife or girlfriend doesn't jump on the bed next to you... naked.

Dead

Does't thou speaketh from person experience?

Umm, hoss? There's some things that ain't none of our d@mn business.

That being said, it brings a whole new outlook to the term "Taking a Meeting", don't it?

[FoldedUp]

I've always wondered what it would be like working from home. Although my company, by trade, involves alot of outside/field work (nat. resources/environmental), a good portion of what we do is office based (reporting, presentations, correspondence etc). I also manage our geographic information systems, which obviously means sittings at a computer for a majority of the time. 95% of our communication with clients is telephone and electronically based, so working from home would not impact that. The thing that I would be weary about losing is the communication between coworkers. We work so closely on projects together that it just seems impossible to NOT be down the hall from each other where we can yell or walk down for help. We would lose alot of our efficiency if we weren't in face-to-face contact with each other.

Yes, I've day-dreamed about this topic before, because I believe the benefits far outweigh the negatives.

[edub20]

I've always wondered what it would be like working from home. Although my company, by trade, involves alot of outside/field work (nat. resources/environmental), a good portion of what we do is office based (reporting, presentations, correspondence etc). I also manage our geographic information systems, which obviously means sittings at a computer for a majority of the time. 95% of our communication with clients is telephone and electronically based, so working from home would not impact that. The thing that I would be weary about losing is the communication between coworkers. We work so closely on projects together that it just seems impossible to NOT be down the hall from each other where we can yell or walk down for help. We would lose alot of our efficiency if we weren't in face-to-face contact with each other.

Yes, I've day-dreamed about this topic before, because I believe the benefits far outweigh the negatives.

Yeah, i can see where you're coming from with that aspect your role. Sometimes face to face is better. I'm already working in a extremely virtual IT dept where all of our meeting take place in web meetings with webcams and such so it's not really any change for me in that aspect. Every aspect of our IT organization is spread out across mostly North America with some being overseas. Pretty sure i'll be doing like Cwink said and getting out 1-2 days a week just to see "people" in their element and interact

[FoldedUp]

I've always wondered what it would be like working from home. Although my company, by trade, involves alot of outside/field work (nat. resources/environmental), a good portion of what we do is office based (reporting, presentations, correspondence etc). I also manage our geographic information systems, which obviously means sittings at a computer for a majority of the time. 95% of our communication with clients is telephone and electronically based, so working from home would not impact that. The thing that I would be weary about losing is the communication between coworkers. We work so closely on projects together that it just seems impossible to NOT be down the hall from each other where we can yell or walk down for help. We would lose alot of our efficiency if we weren't in face-to-face contact with each other.

Yes, I've day-dreamed about this topic before, because I believe the benefits far outweigh the negatives.

Yeah, i can see where you're coming from with that aspect your role. Sometimes face to face is better. I'm already working in a extremely virtual IT dept where all of our meeting take place in web meetings with webcams and such so it's not really any change for me in that aspect. Every aspect of our IT organization is spread out across mostly North America with some being overseas. Pretty sure i'll be doing like Cwink said and getting out 1-2 days a week just to see "people" in their element and interact

That's nice. Our technology relative to current technology is extremely outdated. It'll probably be 10 years before we could effectively operate in a majority virtual world.

[jacksbuddy]

That's nice. Our technology relative to current technology is extremely outdated. It'll probably be 10 years before we could effectively operate in a majority virtual world.

^^^ Speak for yourself Kemosabee^^^

I see waaaayyy too many people who would very easily adapt to remaining hidden behind a computer screen 20+ hours a day if given the chance. (This includes current coworkers and family members, unfortunately.) And yes, it DOES cut into their ability to relate to actual people.

Technology is a good tool. But it can be, and is too often, abused in my ever so humble albeit perfect opinion.