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[Brian K. White]

Fairlight wrote:
>> From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Bill Vermillion
>> shouted:
> [Ken said]
>>> Businesses often feel better if the person is able to be
>>> on-site at least some of the time.
>
> I find that a pretty weak rationale.  Unless you're doing something
> that involves needing physical access to switch media constantly or
> cycle power, etc., it's irrelevant, and it's an indication that
> someone really doesn't have much of a clue about telecommuting.

Or that you really don't have much of a clue about working with others in a
community/office.
When I started here, we all used to work in the office. Then one of us
switched to always working from home and the  others got to working from
home almost 1/2 of the time. So I've been through an experience that shows
the difference working together makes more apparent than it might otherwise
be if say, I had worked for one company where everyone worked together and a
different company where everyone worked remotely.

For straight programming work, it seems at first like there is no
difference, but over time I can see that there really is.
When we do all work together once in a while, we get a lot more of the
intangibles done. We do a much better job of directing the business and
deciding what to do and where to invest attention and kick ideas back and
forth. We get more done over a nice lunch than in sometimes months of phone
& email. You can voice an idea and others can evaluate it in a split second
at least enough to know whether to think about it further. We all end up
wasting so much less time when we are working on projects by deciding what
to do so much more effectively, and being so much clearer and in better
agreement between us about what exactly to do. The whole machine just runs
smoother and produces more finely tuned results and reacts to the
environment faster and more accurately.

Not to mention it's simply more satisfying to spend 50% of your waking life
in the company of others instead of by yourself. Although for that part to
be true of course, you have to like your co-workers or at least respect them
and I guess that's not always attainable.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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