Telecommuting Can Be Bad For Those Who Don't

SirLurksAlot writes "An article up on Ars Technica reports on a study of telecommuting from the point of view of those who show up at the office every day. The study discovered that telecommuting can have adverse effects on the office-bound. Researcher Timothy Golden 'found that in-office employees took less satisfaction in their jobs and felt less of a relationship and obligation to their company as the number of telecommuting coworkers grew. In-office employees in his study became disappointed at having fewer and weaker relationships. They also got frustrated at a perceived increase in workload and difficulties that telecommuting can present to finishing projects and building strong working relationships.'" The article notes that telecommuting is "not an exact science." Some good insights in the discussion forum too.

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Re:Best Team I Ever Worked On Telecommuted

[tjstork]

Say what? I do not think you typed what you meant to type, 'cause man, if you did... you're doing it wrong and I feel sorry for those poor, poor sun boxes.

There were a lot of complicated reasons for this. Oh, the only X client for my windows box cost a bunch of money, then, I was a long time Windows programmer on my first go around with Unix and I honestly was unimpressed with what I'd seen in Unix GUIs.

But above all, honestly, the whole "primitive" thing just appealed to me immensely, and, I was already used to TTY style from before. I saw Unix command line as a sort of a -super DOS- and I really loved it, and still do. I really came to love bash. Super network guy set up bash on my account. Originally I was doing C++ on Windows and crossing over to Unix, just ftping stuff up, but over time I found myself doing as much in vi as I would for quick changes in Visual Studio.