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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]11:28 here again. The open office movement is causing more people to work from home. The downside of that, the company started doing check in using the tracker in company cell phones. Two people are getting fired for being away from their home offices (one was in Vegas for the weekend, the other in Florida for Spring Break). Freaked me out a bit about the ability to keep tabs.[/quote]

Um, shouldn't freak you out if you are doing your work!

I hear these horror stories and I think they must apply to really awful companies who lack any management capabilities. I'm fairly senior at my organization, but hardly a high level exec - but am expected to present on calls, produce work that meets deadlines etc. If I slacked off, they would be able to tell using those metrics, not by tracking my location via computer.

Just weird.

Anyway, I WFH twice a week and have an open concept office and I love it. I left a company where I had an awesome office. It wasn't that great, EXCEPT when I was pumping, but after two kids we aren't having anymore so not a concern. But I've heard this company has a really nice private space for pumping on each floor so no worries anyway.

My company found productivity went up and costs went down (they are a large company and have been able to close down some locations because of telecommuting) so no going back. If the trade off is that the company monitors my computer while I work from home, so be it. It's not that different than working in an office - if you use a company computer - they can see how productive you are when your boss goes out of town, isn't in etc. If your company wants to monitor you, they can is the bottom line.[/quote]

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