Comments on: Telecommuting in Trouble – Or Is It?

By: Michael Shear

Michael Shear — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:24:16 +0000

The Distributed Workplace approach ‘preserves’ the office environment. Economies of scale for a metropolitan wide network of strategically located centers will be provisioned with ‘vitual presence’ technologies. Believe me, today’s available technologies go well beyond webcams and text messaging. Communicating with empoyees on several different floors in the same building allow the logistics of proximity in team building. We have the capability to demonstrate how Properly designed, equipped and networked Work Centers can establish the same environment – instead of different floors, employees may be in different buildings. Again, economies of scale and current state of the art technologies will demonstrate the greater benefits of remote working. Our dissapointment with the results of teleworking is not a reflection on the technologies but rather our need to find more effective models. My guess is that Emil will adapt much more quickly to distributed workplace than teleworking as it exists today. Trick is, are we still willing to talk about alternative approaches and fund some pilot initiatives.

By: Emil

Emil — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:33:29 +0000

Telecommuting needs to perform (r)evolution to change that picture somewhat. Face-to-face interaction, security, and business consolidation are valid reasons for it to be adopted slowly. I for one, don’t feel good about employees working remotely. I fond out that it decreases productivity. Yes, I may be very well a bad manager but am I alone in the business world?

By: Michael Shear

Michael Shear — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:48:27 +0000

I have been working on the need to find more effective uses of telecommunications technologies to support remote workers and have concluded that the work from home model does not work enough of the time for enough individuals. This approach is also inappropriately seen as a viable method of supporting continuity of operations planning. This will be proven to be based upon several false assumtions. A more effective method of supporting knowledge workers remotely is the development of public-private networks of secure facilities. The predominant ‘single location model’ in use by most major organizations is a remnant from our industrial age experience. Multi-location workforce deployment will be a cornerstone for connecting our communities in the information economy. Aside from better traffic congestion mitigation, pro-active deployment from secure network facilities greatly improves emergency preparedness. The list of drivers to move beyond work from home and hotelling is growing daily. Distributed workplace must be given an oportunity to demonstrate the tremendous potential of our information and communication technologies resources.

By: Romani in Spania

Romani in Spania — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:11:42 +0000

a big problem i think