RE: Death of the AS/400 (was Death of the RPG Programmer, ListActivity)

[Ted Barry <TBARRY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately there is a trust factor to telecommuting.  What kinds of
measurements can companies use to insure you're doing the work? 
Results of course, but some people might be faster workers than others
and just cram all of their work into 2 or 3 days and get paid for 5. You
would think that by now telecommuting would be easy since started
around the early 1980's.  But, I've only known a few (1 or 2 maybe)
programmers that have actually found work this way.  It seems very
rare.

>>> Joe Giusto <JGiusto@patuxent.com> 06/14/00 12:06pm >>>
I hate to bring this up again, but with the shortage of programmers in
certain areas, are companies still reluctant to hire part time programmers
and/or allowing more telecommuting to get the job done?
There could be one person on site that would take care of user
interaction
and relay it to the part-timers or telecommuters.  
I have tried to find part time work from time to time and always came up
blank.  Seems most companies want you all or nothing.

Joe Giusto II
Patuxent Publishing Company
10750 Little Patuxent Parkway
Columbia, MD 21044
mailto:JGiusto@patuxent.com <mailto:jgiusto@patuxent.com> 
http://www.lifegoeson.com <http://lifegoeson.com>
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