| Title: | The Digital way of working |
| Moderator: | QUARK::LIONEL ON |
| Created: | Fri Feb 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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I was wondering had heard anything official about the concept of the "virtual office", i.e., working out of one's home. I spoke to an individual in Richmond the other day who is doing this. He did observe that you lose the benefit of informal office communications. Is anybody else out there doing this? Opinions? What does one get for computing resources? Is a DTN installed in your house? Thanks, David
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| 1281.1 | more of it all the time | CVG::THOMPSON | Sun Nov 25 1990 17:14 | 9 | |
Have you looked in the TELEWORK conference? There is a lot of talk
about this sort of thing there. It's at RUMOR::TELEWORK.
There are a number of more or less official pilot efforts underway.
They vary from full time at home to mostly in the office and every
thing in between. There is also a lot of less formal working from
home. Especially in engineering groups.
Alfred
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| 1281.2 | LESLIE::LESLIE | Andy Leslie | Sun Nov 25 1990 17:23 | 2 | |
Only drawback in the UK is that homes used partially for business get
taxed more than residential-use only homes.
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| 1281.3 | :-) | XANADU::FLEISCHER | without vision the people perish (381-0899 ZKO3-2/T63) | Mon Nov 26 1990 11:45 | 13 |
re Note 1281.0 by BOSACT::CHERSON:
> I was wondering had heard anything official about the concept of the "virtual
> office", i.e., working out of one's home.
I believe that the term "virtual office" was used in a recent
Jack Smith memo (since rescinded) not to mean "working in the
home" but to mean "if you work anywhere in the greater
Maynard area, your office is considered to be virtually
everywhere, and thus you cannot get reimbursed for
inter-plant travel."
Bob
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| 1281.4 | Been ten years for me now. | ALOSWS::MULLER | Fred Muller | Sun Dec 09 1990 13:54 | 27 |
I have been working in a Digital "virtual office" for ten years as a
"PSS/EIS" Software Specialist. I guess it is now called the new
"Customer Services" organization headed by Russ Gullotti (Friday's
VOGON news). I have been predicting that move for five years now.
Makes big sense to me.
Digital Virtual Office: No Digital office space, a mailbox, two file
cabinet drawers, little company contact, last in line to touch or
possess new stuff. Working for a minimum of two different bosses,
sometimes with differing goals (gosh, that sounds a little like a
virtual office at home when the wife asks you to raise your feet so she
can vacumm around you). I used to resent it, but I could never deny
the business sense of it.
The real problem was/is related to the following. In the old days when
Software Services was one organization, it was the folks that were "out
of a job" that got all the new goodies or enjoyed the office scuttlebut
because they happened to be around the office daily. Now it is the
Sales Support folks and that is one of the fundamental reasons for the
big migration to that job title.
Current benefit though: The customer is paying green dollars for me
for the next year and that = fewer worries about the recession and
obvious consequences thereof.
Fred
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| 1281.5 | transparent FS guy? | CSC32::K_BOUCHARD | Ken Bouchard CXO3-2 | Fri Dec 21 1990 15:08 | 6 |
re:-1
Are you sure you haven't been working for field service and didn't know
it? One way to tell is if you have a tool bag and a green cart.
Ken
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