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From: bpendlet@esunix.UUCP (Bob Pendleton)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Cubicles ... Working At HOME!
Message-ID: <672@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 88 15:09:04 GMT
References: <171@dolphy.UUCP>
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Organization: Evans & Sutherland, Salt Lake City, Utah
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in article <171@dolphy.UUCP>, jmg@dolphy.UUCP (Jeffrey Greenberg) says:
> 
> I work at home as much as possible, am far more productive there, and
> control the many facets of my life.  Computers, so long as you don't
> have to keep resetting them, make this kind of work possible. If
> only management would trust its employees, employees enjoy their
> work (learn from it, grow...), and return that trust.

I don't think it is as much a lack of trust, especially of professional 
employees, as it is tradition, and two simple facts: Many job require
face to face contact with other people. And, most people don't want to
spend their days alone.

Where I work a lot of people work a home some of the time. I do it myself, once
in a while. But, having people working at home, or at odd times, really causes
problems when you try to get them all together for a meeting that requires
real time interaction. 

			Bob Pendleton
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