05-30-2006, 12:30 AM
Hi,
But eliminating time reporting was never much of a option in my work, most of it for the government who wanted accountability in 6 minute slices.
Ah, well. In the early seventies I worked for Western Electric. A progressive company, we worked a 37.5 hour week, and we really did work just that many hours, on average, since a crisis bought us comp time which we could take off when things got slack. And the talk was of a 35 hour week in a few years and a 20 hour week by the millennium. My expectation for telecommuting is modeled on that reality -- there is a start (Sue can and often does telecommute), the start kind of stalls out for one reason or another, and the idea dies on the dung heap of 'unimplementability' except for the occasion blossom blooming where a person of some imagination and ability can keep it alive.
--Pete
Quote:I've been managing IT shops for many years now, and it kind of freaks them out when I do away with the time reporting systems.Bet you came up from the technical side, have one or more degrees ending in 'S', and never darkened the halls of an MBA program :w00t:
But eliminating time reporting was never much of a option in my work, most of it for the government who wanted accountability in 6 minute slices.
Ah, well. In the early seventies I worked for Western Electric. A progressive company, we worked a 37.5 hour week, and we really did work just that many hours, on average, since a crisis bought us comp time which we could take off when things got slack. And the talk was of a 35 hour week in a few years and a 20 hour week by the millennium. My expectation for telecommuting is modeled on that reality -- there is a start (Sue can and often does telecommute), the start kind of stalls out for one reason or another, and the idea dies on the dung heap of 'unimplementability' except for the occasion blossom blooming where a person of some imagination and ability can keep it alive.
--Pete
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