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Not the kind you get from those adverts stuck on the posts at traffic lights, but real, corportate 'working from home'.
My company has fairly recently introduced this, though it's mostly (but not exclusively) restricted to those at managerial level and upwards.
You can stay at home, dial in, and the system will call you back, allowing you to work over a network connection, almost as if you were in the office.
So certian people, if they don't feel like coming in, can just say "I'm working from home" and that's it. Sometimes it's just for the odd day, but occasionally we don't see them all week.
Which can be a real pain for some people if they need to get hold of them in a hurry.
Last week, one guy rolled in at 10:30am, left 'for lunch' at 12:30, and didn't come back.
Personally, I think it takes the pee.
I'm in a bit of a quiet patch at the moment, with about ten minutes work to do each day. This comes after one hectic two-week period, and before another which starts soon - where there simply aren't enough hours in the day to do what needs to be done, but somehow we manage it.
But I still have to come in to the office and sit there doing nothing for seven hours and 20 minutes - the rest of my working day, not including lunch.
And that's where I think it's ridiculous.
People can be busy, and are happily allowed to work from home. Yet if you have nothing to do, you have to come in.
How stupid is that?
My company has fairly recently introduced this, though it's mostly (but not exclusively) restricted to those at managerial level and upwards.
You can stay at home, dial in, and the system will call you back, allowing you to work over a network connection, almost as if you were in the office.
So certian people, if they don't feel like coming in, can just say "I'm working from home" and that's it. Sometimes it's just for the odd day, but occasionally we don't see them all week.
Which can be a real pain for some people if they need to get hold of them in a hurry.
Last week, one guy rolled in at 10:30am, left 'for lunch' at 12:30, and didn't come back.
Personally, I think it takes the pee.
I'm in a bit of a quiet patch at the moment, with about ten minutes work to do each day. This comes after one hectic two-week period, and before another which starts soon - where there simply aren't enough hours in the day to do what needs to be done, but somehow we manage it.
But I still have to come in to the office and sit there doing nothing for seven hours and 20 minutes - the rest of my working day, not including lunch.
And that's where I think it's ridiculous.
People can be busy, and are happily allowed to work from home. Yet if you have nothing to do, you have to come in.
How stupid is that?
Today I have printed a presentation off, put labels on 5 jars and smoked 5 cigarettes.
Working from home is bad because I wouldn't get to talk about how bad Moulin Rouge is with the one guy here that watches movies.
Working from home is bad because I wouldn't get to talk about how bad Moulin Rouge is with the one guy here that watches movies.
Your Honour wrote:
> It sounds too easy to be able to skive off to me...
Exactly! And I'm pretty sure many do just that.
I mean, the times you try to reach them on their mobile, and strangely it's unavailable...
> It sounds too easy to be able to skive off to me...
Exactly! And I'm pretty sure many do just that.
I mean, the times you try to reach them on their mobile, and strangely it's unavailable...
Same here. All ive had to do today is cdhange a backup tape. Therefore I finished work at 9.08am. I'm going to be surfing for the rest of the day really unless someone requests some help on my project.... which is unlikely.
I can dial in from home, but the only time I can do work really then is after the customers working day - which I dont get paid for so I dont try and do anything!!
I can dial in from home, but the only time I can do work really then is after the customers working day - which I dont get paid for so I dont try and do anything!!
That sounds a bit gash to me.
Surely though, if you dial up from home, and then they call you back, you could just leave the computer connected and then sod off for a day out.
It sounds too easy to be able to skive off to me...
Surely though, if you dial up from home, and then they call you back, you could just leave the computer connected and then sod off for a day out.
It sounds too easy to be able to skive off to me...
Not the kind you get from those adverts stuck on the posts at traffic lights, but real, corportate 'working from home'.
My company has fairly recently introduced this, though it's mostly (but not exclusively) restricted to those at managerial level and upwards.
You can stay at home, dial in, and the system will call you back, allowing you to work over a network connection, almost as if you were in the office.
So certian people, if they don't feel like coming in, can just say "I'm working from home" and that's it. Sometimes it's just for the odd day, but occasionally we don't see them all week.
Which can be a real pain for some people if they need to get hold of them in a hurry.
Last week, one guy rolled in at 10:30am, left 'for lunch' at 12:30, and didn't come back.
Personally, I think it takes the pee.
I'm in a bit of a quiet patch at the moment, with about ten minutes work to do each day. This comes after one hectic two-week period, and before another which starts soon - where there simply aren't enough hours in the day to do what needs to be done, but somehow we manage it.
But I still have to come in to the office and sit there doing nothing for seven hours and 20 minutes - the rest of my working day, not including lunch.
And that's where I think it's ridiculous.
People can be busy, and are happily allowed to work from home. Yet if you have nothing to do, you have to come in.
How stupid is that?
My company has fairly recently introduced this, though it's mostly (but not exclusively) restricted to those at managerial level and upwards.
You can stay at home, dial in, and the system will call you back, allowing you to work over a network connection, almost as if you were in the office.
So certian people, if they don't feel like coming in, can just say "I'm working from home" and that's it. Sometimes it's just for the odd day, but occasionally we don't see them all week.
Which can be a real pain for some people if they need to get hold of them in a hurry.
Last week, one guy rolled in at 10:30am, left 'for lunch' at 12:30, and didn't come back.
Personally, I think it takes the pee.
I'm in a bit of a quiet patch at the moment, with about ten minutes work to do each day. This comes after one hectic two-week period, and before another which starts soon - where there simply aren't enough hours in the day to do what needs to be done, but somehow we manage it.
But I still have to come in to the office and sit there doing nothing for seven hours and 20 minutes - the rest of my working day, not including lunch.
And that's where I think it's ridiculous.
People can be busy, and are happily allowed to work from home. Yet if you have nothing to do, you have to come in.
How stupid is that?