Comments on: Telework: Still Looking Up http://gigaom.com/2008/09/02/telework-still-looking-up/ Tue, 21 May 2013 05:17:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Barbara Saunders http://gigaom.com/2008/09/02/telework-still-looking-up/#comment-75809 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:22:25 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3662#comment-75809 Another thing I think is holding back telework – I believe many people get their social needs met at work. The more immature among their number need the captive, structured society of the office. They resist the notion of working with teleworkers who contribute only their work (including, of course, the necessary collaboration and group bonding) and are not active participants in the “community.”

]]> By: Mike Gale http://gigaom.com/2008/09/02/telework-still-looking-up/#comment-75808 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:18:23 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3662#comment-75808 Without detailed, reliable information these surveys will have a lot of untrue data. Somebody who “just wants to get the survey finished” and has to write a report on what they did, will likely give what they think is a “trendy or fashionable” answer.

Things are holding back telework. A lot is ignorance of what it can do, probably more is distrust of workers. That distrust is an interesting area, and there are certainly people who would do less to almost no work from home. The forgotten side of the coin is that conventional work environments dramatically reduce the output of others.

Time to identify the differences and come up with a reliable way of managing it.

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