Exactly!
My experience with this (being a telecommuter for 6 years now) - is that if you have a separate office and your family actually respects that as "daddy is at work" - then it isn't a distraction at all. I have a separate office - that is closed. It has it's own door outside - so that helps if needed. Hell - my son actually IM's me from the downstairs computer into my office because they know that when in the office - dad is off limits. Just depends on the situation I guess.
I disagree completely. I have done it full time for a few years and have been ultra productive for my company. I would hate to have to go backwards because some people don't "get it" and think of it as an easy way out.
With a global company - with teams in separate places - what is the difference in sitting in a office IM's and having phone conferences than in your home and doing it?
I have been working out of my home for almost 6 years now - converting from full office. To be completely honest - over those 6 years - I bet I have put in 100% more time than I would have being in the office.
I too have good work ethic - and do work waaay many more hours than I would if I had to go into an office.
It definitely depends on the person, but I would hate to see some people that take the wrong advantage ruin what has turned into an amazing experience for me.
Yes - early in IBM days - most engineers were "required" to carry around a notpad in their shirt pocket - called the ThinkPad.
This is where the name for the laptop came from.
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Exactly! My experience with this (being a telecommuter for 6 years now) - is that if you have a separate office and your family actually respects that as "daddy is at work" - then it isn't a distraction at all. I have a separate office - that is closed. It has it's own door outside - so that helps if needed. Hell - my son actually IM's me from the downstairs computer into my office because they know that when in the office - dad is off limits. Just depends on the situation I guess.
I disagree completely. I have done it full time for a few years and have been ultra productive for my company. I would hate to have to go backwards because some people don't "get it" and think of it as an easy way out. With a global company - with teams in separate places - what is the difference in sitting in a office IM's and having phone conferences than in your home and doing it?
I have been working out of my home for almost 6 years now - converting from full office. To be completely honest - over those 6 years - I bet I have put in 100% more time than I would have being in the office. I too have good work ethic - and do work waaay many more hours than I would if I had to go into an office. It definitely depends on the person, but I would hate to see some people that take the wrong advantage ruin what has turned into an amazing experience for me.
BigAdmin has an article that describes storing Snort alert output in a MySQL database and using the web front end BASE to analyze the data. Sounded pretty interesting... http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/snor t_base.html
Yes - early in IBM days - most engineers were "required" to carry around a notpad in their shirt pocket - called the ThinkPad. This is where the name for the laptop came from.