Working from home

Published Sun, Jun 24 2007 13:10

2007... and this (working from home) is still something close to impossible. not sure why, but it still looks like there are lots of people that think that workers produce more when they work on the office than when they work from home. most of them think that watching their workers is the key to insure better productivity.

in my opinion, this is completly wrong, but it seems like nothing can make them change their minds. In fact, i've tried to measure my productivity at home and at work. In my case, i'm twice more productive when i work from home. how about you?

by luisabreu

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# » Working from home said on Sunday, June 24, 2007 7:54 AM

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# Christopher Bennage said on Sunday, June 24, 2007 1:37 PM

Agreed.

# Bertrand Le Roy said on Sunday, June 24, 2007 3:50 PM

My experience is the exact opposite. Too many distractions and occasions for procrastination at home. Much easier to focus at the office.

# luisabreu said on Sunday, June 24, 2007 3:56 PM

Bertrand: i think that it all depends on "how you work". when you think about the time you need just to get to the office (which in my case is not much, maybe about an hour), the stress you endure during that time (most of the times, i'm driving), the ammount of times you get disturbed by a phone ringing or a co-worker that is talking with another guy about the soccer game during the weekend...oh well, sometimes i really think that doing anything at the office is really a miracle :)

# daniel said on Sunday, June 24, 2007 5:22 PM

From my experience, if you're a key employee you'll get a lot of distractions @ your workplace, since most people are not self reliant and you have the means to help them.

But there are a lot of employees (most) that are not self reliant, nor independent, and in these cases they'll slack or thrash a significant amount of time if they won't get a nudge in the right direction.

# Bertrand Le Roy said on Monday, June 25, 2007 12:02 AM

Well, I can be at the office in less than ten minutes, and everyone there is self-reliant, but I guess I'm super-lucky :)

# Cassio said on Monday, July 09, 2007 12:47 AM

Sure, as a developer I think working from home is far more productive, as long as you have enough self-discipline.

# luisabreu said on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:26 AM

hello.

agreed. and if you can't, your employer can always fire you. what i don't get is why is so hard to get that chance (maybe that's because i've always been an employee and never an employer)