Working From Home
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More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don’t work from their offices, or “where they’re meant to work”. With the Internet, intranet’s and extranet’s, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier for those with already busy lives.
Having said that, whether you work from home or primarily in the office, either have their ups and downs, and working from home isn’t always cracked up to what people think it is. I thought it’d be interesting to show what it’s like working from home, and whether it beats working in the office.
Mary-Jo, esteemed colleague and friend, some would say the cornerstone of ZDNet with her blog, All About Microsoft, gave me her view on effectively the same job as me.
I actually love working at home. I am way more productive at home than in an office with a lot of interruptions. That said, I think I work too much because there is less separation between being “on” and “off” the clock. The expenses kind of even out: no commuting costs and no $12 tuna sandwiches. I can make what I like and eat what and when I want. That offsets my Internet/electricity/phone, in my mind.
I do more and more of my interviews on email and IM. I like that because it reduces time differences, the need to transcribe and the worry you misunderstood something. So I am happy to do fewer phone calls and more “social networking” kinds of interactions.
We at ZDNet are as transparent as we possibly can be. You’ll notice some of us have full time jobs as executives and directors, CEO’s of organisations and some do this for a living, whereas I’m the only good-for-nothing student, *sigh*. This is my way of showing transparency in my work, but also the future of how we work, as technology can be the key to our work freedom.
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