Reply to: Home Working

[MarillionFan]

I have to work away. When I work at home I get bored for a few minutes and the next thing I know Im on ampland.com and my trousers are around my ankles!!! I cant take the friction burns!!!!!!!

[hyperD]

I've spent the last 3 years working from home office. <threaded>Never worked so efficiently in all my life which is why I can take on 3 simultaneous projects.</threaded>

No commute with Mr Stinky arms or Ms Red Bull gulper, no delays in tube tunnels while busting for a whazz, no M25 holdups because a Polish truck driver has fallen asleep at the wheel and driven into Mrs Miggins doing 45mph in her Morris Minor, no support monkey bleating in your ear, no manager desperate to build his virtual empire with his 09:00 daily worthless meetings, no perms moaning about how much you make and how little they know, minimal politics, no deaf person without social skills shouting at the top of his voice going on about how he banged his wife while she was on the rag,... FFS...

Cons: minimal exposure to a plethora of 20 somethings in extremely short miniskirts.

Pros: Unlimited download of unrestricted porn! And Pimms on a sunny lunchtime that costs less than a pound!

[DimPrawn]

[Alf W]

I certainly wouldn't let any developers work from home - especially Contractors. They'd be spending all day p1ssing around on Internet forums and the like.

[DimPrawn]

I work from home. Have done quite a few contracts with between 1 and 3 days a week at home.

Actually 3 days at home, 2 in the office is the perfect compromise and most efficient way for everyone to work. It's great missing the Monday and Friday commute nightmare.

Any company that sends some/most it work offshore (i.e. about 90% of those in the UK) is being pretty hypocritical in not letting it's UK development staff work some time away from the office.

[davisc02]

because they know everyone will be watching cash in the attic and car boot challenge

[AtW]

Work is a five minute walk for me.

How many times did you get mugged this year?

[Andyw]

Work is a five minute walk for me.

Takes me longer to wheeze my way up the four flights of stairs when I get there.

What about coming down the stairs ?

[mcquiggd]

Work is a five minute walk for me.

Takes me longer to wheeze my way up the four flights of stairs when I get there.

[Andyw]

I had a brief 3 weeks contract in June where I worked 4 days from home and 1 day in the office - worked well as I was not tired from travelling, the client however already had a number of off-site contractors, and actually team in Ukraine. I think the reason they were open minded is because they are a reasonably successful young company whose main objective is to get good results rather than create policies for policies sake.

Sounds good to me.....we need more of it ! after all who needs to start the days work with a long commute !!! sooner this country gets into the 21st century the better ! it gets my vote !

[AtW]

I had a brief 3 weeks contract in June where I worked 4 days from home and 1 day in the office - worked well as I was not tired from travelling, the client however already had a number of off-site contractors, and actually team in Ukraine. I think the reason they were open minded is because they are a reasonably successful young company whose main objective is to get good results rather than create policies for policies sake.

[VectraMan]

I spend 3 hours+ and about £30 per day getting into an office every day, when for the most part I could do the same work from home quite easily. You couldn't have too much isolation in software development, but ideally I'd come in for 2 days a week, stay over the one night, and then have 3 days working at home. I mostly work by myself anyway, and there's phone/email/VPN/remote desktop to solve any problems.

My client isn't the sort of company that would entertain such a radical idea though.

[Spartacus]

Oh and yeah must not forget the Governement wanting their share of the petrol revenue !!

Correct, citizen. Working from home is tax evasion so that's 20 years in the iso-cubes for you.

[Pondlife]

That's about right! I think you summed it up perfectly.

Software projects can be a bugger though if the staff are geographically distant.

As soon as they realise that everything can be done remotely cos everyone's working from home they'll offshore it.

[TheMonkey]

That's about right! I think you summed it up perfectly.

Software projects can be a bugger though if the staff are geographically distant.