Strange that Follett IT still has the option to telecommute. Don't desperate times call for all hands on deck?
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Work from home costs the company nothing. It is the only thing that keeps me from leaving this dump and going someplace with decent insurance and other benefits.
Hey at home bean counter! You work so hard while we waste our time driving to the office, you troll this board and mock the "crying". GET BACK TO WORK! I'm sure there is some benefit you can justify cutting or perhaps you're trying to outsource day care to prison. Orange is the new day care, right? Just saying your self important name calling doesn't help. not only that, it took away from a valid point.
I am from the accounting team and working from home is great to focus on important tasks with tight deadlines. Depending on the work I am doing, it is beneficial to work at home, and sometimes it is beneficial to work in the office.
Working remote is a benefit to me but also to the company as the quality of my work is improved when working remote. I typically spend my normal commuting time working as well so the average day when I am at home is 10+ hours.
If you want to work remote, I suggest you find a job/career that benefits from working independently instead of crying on this board. Positions/functions are allowed to work remote, not specific employees.
You got that right VP's should not be in the mix....from business or IT.
You aren't missing much having IT working from home. The bad outcomes aren't from people who don't work well in isolation. The bad outcomes are because the people making the demand don't know diddly squat about the business. They're asking IT to create solutions to poorly understood business problems. Then, the VP who poorly spec'd the solutions blames IT when it doesn't work. IT, as a rule, is great at doing what the organization has asked it to do. That being said, it isn't the center of laughs, hi jinx and great ideas. Again, you're not missing much.
Bashing other teams clearly shows jealousy. There's enough shit to worry about without unprovoked, unnecessarily jealous remarks. Actually quite funny how some like to bash what others have...
"To bad the results from IT are dismal."
As a former IT person, I can empathize, even though I worked on a team that had minimal defects and never missed a deadline in 15 years.
Dismal results often happen when there are a lack of requirements, insufficient resources, business teams that don't participate well in projects. Further, great results never happen when the requests are simply to tack on functionality to systems that are long obsolete. Management, coordination between teams, and support from the business count.
Too often, miracles are expected, from short term thinking, and a complete lack of a longer term plan to get where we need to be, and provide the resources to get there. I've seen Business Requirements Documents with a dozen basic math errors, and half dozen contradictions, on the same page of a 25 page document. I've seen projects where there was a complete lack of formal requirements. I've seen projects where the business doesn't show up to discuss issues, or clarify requirements.
All contribute to the results that are accrue.
Maybe if we complain about each departments perks they'll take away the few that are left so everyone is optimally miserable. Nice plan guys.
Funny, all the guys working from home respond to the original post within 10 minutes. ROFL
Nice to see the IT guys responding. To bad the results from IT are dismal.
If you've ever tried to do something complex, in a place full of distractions, you would know why the policy existed.
The 'open office' arrangement in Westbrook might be ideal for marketing strategy collaboration, but it was a nightmare for developing complex code, or fixing code slapped together by people from india that don't understand the business or systems.
A large portion of IT's function revolves around sitting at a computer creating or altering code. As long as there are measurable ways to track productivity, why should it matter to you if they do it from their home.
With it came weekend, evening, and holiday support.
Yes it was nice to have comfy clothes on, good food, and some music on, but often the days are even longer.
What do you mean? We work just as hard as anyone in the office. The only difference is we can actually get more stuff done from home than when we're in the office and being interrupted every 10 minutes.