Working from home

Open dialogue with ones employees is definitely the way to success. As usual no one seize fits all.

David Smith

26/03/2007 22:22:07

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I have a huge garden room that helps me working from home. It is amazing the difference it has made to my quality of life. Instead of driving to the station , paying for parking, sitting on the train for one hour into manchester, and then struggling through the crowds to reach my office, i now say goodbye to my family at 8.59am, and am in my office by 9am after a quick stroll across the lawn . Feeling envious? You should be! Ok , so I know I'm a smarmy geek, but you gotta admit, it takes some beating! I have financed the garden room over ten years and the cost is less than the cost of comuting; plus I'm a much more relaxed person at the start and end of the day! I really do recommend it!

David

David Smith

29/03/2007 22:45:46

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I forgot to mention that in 40 years time we are all going to be 20 feet under water, unless you live up a mountain, and that means that the harbour will be flooded in Douglas, as well as the sea front. Have you noticed that the flooding is getting worse? It also means that the airport will be under water. Does this mean the end of the Isle of Man as a viable community seperated from the mainland forever, or does it mean that there is hop efor a community that is willing to be sustainable on its own? What do you think?

Nathan Pledger

05/04/2007 08:49:22

Technical Bod

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I think I'm going to snap up a plot of land on the Mountain. The benefits are great:

No noisy neighbours (apart from the wind)
Awesome views
Fantastic views of the TT action
No flooding .... ever

Sherrilynne Starkie

21/04/2007 10:36:59
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The great thing about working from home is that I get to work all the time. I get to my desk about 6.30 a.m. and can really focus for a good 16 hours with little distraction. No colleagues dropping by my desk. No lunch break to contend with. No meetings, yeah!
If I've got insomnia I can just go to my desk and work without wasting time tossing and turning worrying about work. And, if I want to finish stuff up after a long day, I can just hang around my desk and get it done.

Sometimes the postman rings the bell and this can be a nuisance because I have to go downstairs and answer the door. But it only happens occasionally.

Working from home is ace! :-)

karen cortes-salat

25/04/2007 10:44:44

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Two thoughts -1 -when you put ice into your gin and tonic or whatever it is that you drink , does the level of the liquid in your glass overflow or rise when the ice melts? Greenland is much like this - there is very little land beneath the ice. So we will have to wait for the southern ice sheet to melt before running up to the hills because most of that ice is sitting on land.

2 What if there is a recession - Many people will be out of a job and will have to rack their brains to find a way to generate cash working from home.

Richard

25/04/2007 14:07:23

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How would accountability be implemented in the ‘ working from home ‘ scenario. If I work for myself this is not an issue – what sort of companies would encourage workers to work from home and how would they monitor them

Sally

25/04/2007 15:38:09

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I was going to say that it comes down to trust. But that is not the case. In reality they are expected to do so much work as agreed in a weekly meeting. They just have to get on with it. It would become very clear whether or not it was working by their output. It is not an option for everyone.

Lotus

25/04/2007 15:48:08

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I like my home to be a santuary from work.

Besides I love working with other people and I would get so lonely at home all day on my own.

Madge

25/04/2007 21:14:52

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My home is my castle. And my office, too. I love working from home. I normally wake up around 10am and after some gentle stretching I check my emails in bed while drinking coffee and munching toast. I have my mobile on the bed side table and laptop propped up on a pillow. I have the telly open (gladly my bed side table is big enough to accommodate remote contol and few other necessary bits and bobs) so I get to see the morning news while I plunge myself into the daily tasks. Normally around lunchtime I get up, change my clothes and get the daily dose of social contacts and exercise by popping into the local supermarket to get something for lunch. After the lunch I come back home, spend few hours by the computer while having little breaks to put the laundy into the washing mashine, tidy up around the house and make few work related and personal phonecalls and emails. Nobody is telling me what I should do and when, and in actual fact I think I'm more productive at home than I ever have been in the office. And I manage to keep the house tidier. I normally finnish around 5pm and use couple of hours for my hobbies before making social visits to my mates. Working from home really suits me, but people are different and it might not be equally enjoyable or even possible to everybody.