With technology the way it is today, why isn't there more telework?
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Anonymous
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In the 90's and 2000's everyone thought that there would be a future where work-at-home/telework would explode.
Yet, that's really not what we've seen. Actually it is the opposite - we see people needing to congregate in the a few urban megahubs for their careers. Why? |
Anonymous
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Because managers experience with people teleworking have had mixed results with some people taking advantage of not being visually supervised on a daily basis.
Because not everyone has a home office set up that accommodates work from home / teleworking. |
Anonymous
| Not all organizations have invested appropriately in networks. Many of my peers could not do their job during the blizzard b/c of network issues. |
Anonymous
| Because too many people try to combine telework with caregiving. You can't do both. |
Anonymous
Like people don't try to combine office work with DCUMing, shopping, blogging, etc.? It's time we re-evaluate the 8-hour workday, 5-day work week, and complete lack of vacation and time off in this grind-obsessed society. |
Anonymous
Luddites. People on this forum aren't aware of how f*cking tech-ignorant many people (still) are. |
Anonymous
| Managers stuck in the "I need to see you at your desk to know you are working" mindset. |
Anonymous
| i think people are social animals and don't really want to spend their days alone |
Anonymous
| I have 2-5 meetings a day. So much harder to do over the phone than in person. |
Anonymous
| I can tell you that in my agency there are two issues: dinosaur managers and technology failing to keep pace with workplace needs (constant database interruptions). |
Anonymous
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It doesn't work well for large organizations that are meeting centric. Conference calls just do not work as well. You would need a culture shift away from so many meetings to make it work for larger organizations.
That, and too many people have abused it. Look at Yahoo. Presumably they had they technology and technically-capable people. But they got rid of it because it didn't fit in their culture. |
Anonymous
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too many meetings!
I have someone who reports to me who is now on maternity leave and has a long commute. I am going to try really hard to let her work from home twice a week, but it will be tricky because it's hard to be the only person on the conference line when everyone else is sitting around the table at a meeting. |
Anonymous
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My fed agency can't afford to get me a laptop. Hence no telework. I think they can't afford it on purpose.
Also, every boss I've ever had doesn't like telework. |
Anonymous
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We don't give out work phones and no one has home phones anymore. I really don't want to give out my cell phone number to everyone at work.
90% of my meetings are teleconference meetings. It would be SO much easier to do at home. I work in an open office and have to use my headset. I'd love to be able to listen on speaker phone instead. |
Anonymous
| Because speaker phone technology has not advanced and they are still the most obnoxious things in any meeting. |