I exclusively telecommuted to a job in another state for a year and a half and set foot in the office once during that period. There were several challenges. First everyone else was in the office which inhibited my ability to navigate political currents. I was cut out of a lot of that political back and forth. I am naturally an introvert, but frankly, the The Oatmeal nails the good, bad and ugly of telecommuting. I basically felt like a hermit and socially isolated. I began to get cabin fever after several months and ultimately decided for my mental health, I needed to start going into the office again. We do still have some telecommuting flexibility at my new job, but it's a once-in-a-while-because-the-plumber-is-coming kind of thing.
In short, telecommuting is great and should be part of every employers tool-set, but so should meeting together in an office. It is often more efficient for collaborative tasks just as sequestering yourself at home can be. Blanket bans and usage of exclusively one style of work or the other are short sighted, limiting and ultimately unhealthy. You have to do both every once in a while.
The mobile internet is not now "the internet" - the internet runs the mobile internet. And people didn't switch to this because it was "better" they switched to it because now people could charge for "the internet". Oh, you want to access our site on mobile? Then you have to buy our Sh**y app. Or if the app was free, it was so providers could collect even more tracking data on you to give more targeted advertising (now we can advertise the pizza hut next door!). And so they could have in-app ads instead of mere in-browser ads.
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I exclusively telecommuted to a job in another state for a year and a half and set foot in the office once during that period. There were several challenges. First everyone else was in the office which inhibited my ability to navigate political currents. I was cut out of a lot of that political back and forth. I am naturally an introvert, but frankly, the The Oatmeal nails the good, bad and ugly of telecommuting. I basically felt like a hermit and socially isolated. I began to get cabin fever after several months and ultimately decided for my mental health, I needed to start going into the office again. We do still have some telecommuting flexibility at my new job, but it's a once-in-a-while-because-the-plumber-is-coming kind of thing. In short, telecommuting is great and should be part of every employers tool-set, but so should meeting together in an office. It is often more efficient for collaborative tasks just as sequestering yourself at home can be. Blanket bans and usage of exclusively one style of work or the other are short sighted, limiting and ultimately unhealthy. You have to do both every once in a while.
The mobile internet is not now "the internet" - the internet runs the mobile internet. And people didn't switch to this because it was "better" they switched to it because now people could charge for "the internet". Oh, you want to access our site on mobile? Then you have to buy our Sh**y app. Or if the app was free, it was so providers could collect even more tracking data on you to give more targeted advertising (now we can advertise the pizza hut next door!). And so they could have in-app ads instead of mere in-browser ads.