I can see the headlines now: Los Alamos Nuclear Secrets Flushed Down Toilet.
The Los Alamos Laboratory reported that two matchbook sized disk drives were lost. Investigators suspect an employee accidentally dropped them into a toilet...
I have several children. I telecommute one day a week. I've found that having a separate office and working hours keeps the spouse and children away. I've also found that when I open my door, the children burst in. So, creating a physical barrier between "work" and "home" made telecommuting reduced the home distractions.
When work time is over, my time goes to the family. This is where telecommuting has been great for my morale. My "commute" is as simple as opening the door and taking a couple of steps. I can immediately help my spouse with the dinner routine, where before she would deal with it on her own during my two hour drive-commute. I also can participate with those evening activites that parents "should" attend.
This issue was one big reason I rejected a $15K salary increase. The offering employer did not want to make telecommuting arrangements.
I hope that employers will take note of this. I'm sure there are others who made a similar decision because of telecommuting.
Yes, I still read our local newspaper on paper. However, the discussion seems to address the relevancy of reading the "news" on paper and the content provided by traditional newspaper companies.
Reading the "paper" still makes sense for me because I find the paper portable and requires no special equipment to read it.
The larger issue is what content should news organizations provide readers to stay alive. I read our local newspapers both on paper and online. The reasons are local news, time for thoughtful, researched writing, and editorial review. The first two reasons I really care about.
Perhaps, newspapers could stay in business by focusing on a regional audience by providing in-depth stories that matter to them. For example, I live in an area where development is gobbling up open space. I always read could articles about local development issues: politics, real estate, new building plans, etc. I think "in-depth" is an important component. I almost never get my news from commercial TV or radio, because NPR does a great job covering a story's depth while commerical TV glosses it over. This implies hiring writers who are experts about their subject areas.
Consider reading Your Money or Your Life by Dominguez and Robin (ISBN 0140286780). They assert that everything you do is equivalant to your life energy. If you put your "time" into work, you're sucking up life energy. They argue, know your values so that you can spend your life energy on the things you want. Too many of us (I'm included, too), spend too much life energy on inane things like long meetings.
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I can see the headlines now: Los Alamos Nuclear Secrets Flushed Down Toilet.
The Los Alamos Laboratory reported that two matchbook sized disk drives were lost. Investigators suspect an employee accidentally dropped them into a toilet...
I have several children. I telecommute one day a week. I've found that having a separate office and working hours keeps the spouse and children away. I've also found that when I open my door, the children burst in. So, creating a physical barrier between "work" and "home" made telecommuting reduced the home distractions.
When work time is over, my time goes to the family. This is where telecommuting has been great for my morale. My "commute" is as simple as opening the door and taking a couple of steps. I can immediately help my spouse with the dinner routine, where before she would deal with it on her own during my two hour drive-commute. I also can participate with those evening activites that parents "should" attend.
This issue was one big reason I rejected a $15K salary increase. The offering employer did not want to make telecommuting arrangements.
I hope that employers will take note of this. I'm sure there are others who made a similar decision because of telecommuting.
Yes, I still read our local newspaper on paper. However, the discussion seems to address the relevancy of reading the "news" on paper and the content provided by traditional newspaper companies.
Reading the "paper" still makes sense for me because I find the paper portable and requires no special equipment to read it.
The larger issue is what content should news organizations provide readers to stay alive. I read our local newspapers both on paper and online. The reasons are local news, time for thoughtful, researched writing, and editorial review. The first two reasons I really care about.
Perhaps, newspapers could stay in business by focusing on a regional audience by providing in-depth stories that matter to them. For example, I live in an area where development is gobbling up open space. I always read could articles about local development issues: politics, real estate, new building plans, etc. I think "in-depth" is an important component. I almost never get my news from commercial TV or radio, because NPR does a great job covering a story's depth while commerical TV glosses it over. This implies hiring writers who are experts about their subject areas.
Consider reading Your Money or Your Life by Dominguez and Robin (ISBN 0140286780). They assert that everything you do is equivalant to your life energy. If you put your "time" into work, you're sucking up life energy. They argue, know your values so that you can spend your life energy on the things you want. Too many of us (I'm included, too), spend too much life energy on inane things like long meetings.