Originally Posted by
Martinis at 8
Allow me to be the Fascist in this thread. In general I do not support the concept of telecommuting (TC). It breeds indolence. In fact those who advocate TC, I believe, are already indolent and are scamming for more goof-off time. So now some want the TC to be done from exotic locations like San Miguel de Allende. Give me a break!
I believe TC lowers productivity, and that there is a lot of watching of Jerry Springer while these TC'ers are supposedly working.
I am also against the concept of 9/80. It is a scourge on America. Pretty soon we will start trying to eat into Thursday. I am happy to see Sarkozy elected in France where he is trying to reverse these slacker trends.
Cheers,
M8
Well you can have your opinions of course and maybe your experience has been different but my husband generally works 5 days a week and travels 1 - 2 (and often works from the AC or on the plane while flying). He's also very strict about keeping regular hours while TCing no matter where we are. One of the reasons we prefer not TCing from home (or near relatives) is because they assume just because we are home we are available. They tend to get a little upset when we decline because my husband is indeed working. I'm a little more flexible in this regard but he is a nose to the grindstone kind of guy.