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[quote=Anonymous]I think some people are missing the point. This is not about 9 to 5 telework replacing the traditional in the office from 9 to 5. This is about the total separation of time from work. It's about eradicating the importance that office culture places on anything except the work and the results of that work. No more 40 hours "work" for your salary. No more justifying time away from your desk. No more keeping tabs on others' whereabouts. No more meetings where you have to say something just to show how important you are to the project.

The word really is REVOLUTION. I don't know if people get it and truly believe it can't work, or if they're too narrow-minded to grasp the completeness of the change.

For the PP whose work requires access to paper files: That is your job. You do what you have to do to deliver results. For you, that seems to mean spending at least some time in a physical office. But it does not have to mean sitting in a specific chair during specific hours. Don't you ever do any work that does NOT require access to those files? My job requires access to physical files as well as access to a secured computer terminal that sits on a desk in an office downtown. But I only need those things for about 30% of my overall job. And that 30% usually takes place at certain times in the financial cycle. It's not from 9am to 12pm Monday through Friday 52 weeks a year without fail-- it's more like a solid week at the end of each month, and a solid month at the end of the fiscal year. When I'm not doing those particular tasks, why should I be at that desk? I have a laptop and a cell phone. People who need me can reach me. I can send emails and edit reports from anywhere, at any time. As long as I get it done by deadline, why should anyone care where I was sitting when I was doing it? Yes, I go to an office. I do it when my work requires it, not on some anachronistic schedule. Not like I'm assembling widgets on a conveyor belt which is connected to a machine which sits in a factory.

And for the PP whose employees would do "fuck all" if not for her physical oversight... does that speak to the employees' abilities, or the manager's attitude and preference for control? Why is it working for other companies (like my company, for example, or all of Best Buy Corporate, where the ROWE model was developed and has been in place for years?), but it wouldn't work for [i]your[/i] employees?

Anyway, I've rambled on too long. I just get so frustrated on behalf of posters here, and people in my real life, who stress about coming in 15 minutes late because of a drop-off snafu, or who have to squirrel away "personal leave" time in order to take their kid to the doctor. We are professionals who worked hard to earn the knowledge and credentials that qualify us to do our jobs. We beat out dozens (or hundreds!) of other candidates because we're good at what we do and we're interested in doing it. Why on earth should we be treated in a way that suggests the exact opposite, the minute we're hired? [/quote]

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