[147230] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: On Working Remotely
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Mon Dec 5 23:02:20 2011
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:01:04 -0500 (EST)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <201112051009.09009.david@davidradcliffe.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, David Radcliffe wrote:
> I do have to say to anyone planning to work from home, make sure you have a
> proper work space. I have a computer room. It contains a dozen systems,
> electronics gear and parts (I used to have time for that hobby), and
> comfortable and ergonomic work spaces. There is no TV. No reason for one
> because this is the work room. The mind set should be "I am now in the work
> room, so I am at work." Really works for me.
That's one of the reasons that I don't work from home very much at this
point - I don't have a proper office, however I'm hoping to fix that some
time next year. The other reasons I don't work from home very much are
that my job still has a lot of hands-on responsibilities (which I don't
mind - pulling cable or racking equipment is a nice break from staring at
a screen for long periods of time), and, unfortunately, upper managements'
perceptions of things like teleworking and flex/comp time have not caught
up with the times :(
jms
