Comments on: Care about Earth Day? Tell your employees to stay home.

By: Chris Ferdinandi

Chris Ferdinandi — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:16:10 +0000

@Henning – Fair enough. Perhaps “almost every white collar job” would have been more accurate. Thanks for your comment!

By: Henning Makholm

Henning Makholm — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:05:08 +0000

“with the exception of manufacturing plants, call-centers and retail shops, almost every job in every organization can be just as successfully completed anywhere that’s not the office.”

Hm, telecommuting bricklayers? Telecommuting bus drivers? Telecommuting surgeons? Telecommuting tour guides, janitors, policemen, plumbers, pilots, kindergarten teachers, mail carriers, railway traffic controllers?

I suspect you have a very broad definition of “manufacturing plant” and/or “retail shop” …

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Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:12:46 +0000

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By: Chris Ferdinandi

Chris Ferdinandi — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:05:36 +0000

@Steve Boese – Well said!

By: Steve Boese

Steve Boese — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:51:46 +0000

Great post Chris, I know from your writings that you are a proponent of ROWE as am I, and I hope that more and more organizations will stop taking the easy way out (taking attendance and counting hours) and start focusing on results. If that happens, then we can drop the silly conversations about ‘telecommuting’, and talk about outcomes. Treat people like adults, be a manager, not a kindergarten teacher, and measure results. That is all.

By: Chris Ferdinandi

Chris Ferdinandi — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:31:39 +0000

@Ben – I hear you. I worked for a company that told everyone to leave the computers on, too. They ran updates at night, so they wanted the computers on. Of course, they didn’t run updates every night, or even every week, so… That’s a lot of wasted electricity.

Good luck with telecommuting at your new job (I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you!).

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:28:01 +0000

I used to work in a gov’t building, and everyone had to leave computers on overnight or get in trouble for not following the rules. Hundreds of desktops spinning away for ~12 hours without anyone there. Hmmm…

I’m not into the whole “green” thing, but I AM more than happy to save the companies (or myself) some money anywhere it’s feasible. There’s a good post on HR Bartender today on this topic.

I would love to do some telecommuting, but my last job made it very difficult. I’m hoping this new one will allow me some freedom to work how/when/where I work best, because it will not only help me, but my employer will also get the benefit of my top-shelf work. :-)