Re: Work remote

[boothm@xxxxxxx]

Dave, its guys like you that have to win this battle for us programmers though. 
 People today would be offended to see a physician "wasting" valuable driving 
around making house calls, but at one time that was the expected behaviour.  
And while he was there at the house he had a piece of pie and looked over the 
other children too, just to be sure.

I feel that much of the problem is that some people that wanted W-2 work but 
weren't good enough to be hired went looking for contract work and were put in 
the field doing jobs for which they were not qualified.  For this I blame no 
one, but expectations were raised too high for everyone.

In the end, we programmers and other professional staff need the recruiters to 
make the idea of telecommuting  acceptable to managements for us.  After all, 
selling our services is what these guys want to do, right?



In <d21e8f8.365050d7@aol.com>, on 11/16/98 
   at 11:20 AM, HAVEAJOB@aol.com said:


>The trend towards allowing remote work is headed in a positive direction,
>I think, but change will continue to be slow.  I'm seeing employers make
>the programmers earn the right on an individual basis.  At this point,
>less than 5% of my clients (not involved in the consulting field) allow
>remote work to occur, and the majority of this work is done 1)while
>"on-call", 2)an emergency basis, or 3) for specific project work.

>Dave Brown

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