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[quote=Anonymous]I think white collar private sector employees who say -- I work from home but I work JUST as much as my colleagues are full of $hit. I have never seen a work from home (full time -- not like 1 day a week or something) professional work nearly as hard. The whole -- oh but I don't waste time commuting or getting lunch or standing by the watercooler is utter nonsense. Even if they start off being just as productive, after a while it turns into -- oh I gotta pick up my kid from school, it's just 15 min -- no more than a Sbux run with colleagues; or let me just throw in a load of laundry; or I just gotta talk to the cable repair guy. The ones who have "special" arrangements that let them work from home -- often bc the job is in a different city -- are just seen as being less "vital" to the team and are given fewer responsibilities, prob due to out of sight, out of mind. The sum total -- they never want to admit it, but their colleagues pick up their slack all the time.

I'm glad companies are starting to clamp down on these arrangements in certain industries, as they're realizing that a Minneapolis based company that has one executive in Dallas because he can't/won't move has no idea what the Dallas guy does all day, so he needs to either move or work out a 4 day arrangement where he's in a hotel in MN and flies home Thursday night.

Don't get me wrong -- it works in certain jobs which are more "production" based (like paying medical claims or typing up deposition transcripts) bc someone can put a quota on you, but for regular business jobs -- it's not as effective as people would like to think.[/quote]

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