One in five telecommuters does an hour or less of work a day

[GodlessAstronomer]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20/pjs_every_day/

Where can I get me one of these jobs? :hmm:

 

[TecHNooB]

Usually only awesome employees get this privilege.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Can't be that awesome if they're only doing an hour a day

 

[Dumac]

Can't be that awesome if they're only doing an hour a day

Maybe they can get more done in an hour than everyone can in 8?

 

[torpid]

That's more than many of my coworkers do, despite the fact that they are physically at the office here for 8+ hours per day

 

[busydude]

That's more than many of my coworkers do, despite the fact that they are physically at the office here for 8+ hours per day

It is always the coworkers.

 

[WackyDan]

Technically, many home office workers tend to be in professional sales, field engineers, etc. I've worked from home for different companies since 1997.

Yes, there are side benefits to working from home, and sometimes, that means a down day where you don't have a lot on the calendar and you use that time to catch up with personal business.

That is the trade off for the three nights I'm spending away from home and my family this week.... And the trade off for the business trip to Latin America where I have to leave on a Sunday, and don't get home until the following Saturday.

It is the trade off for the late nights on email or prepping for a big meeting.

So yeah... you have light days, and then the other aspect of home office includes those days you are glued to your desk from early am to evening due to any amount of craziness.

Anyone working from home that averages 1 hour a day isn't going to last long or make what ever measurements they are assessed on... and be fired.

 

[zinfamous]

Can't be that awesome if they're only doing an hour a day

maybe they are very efficient?

i remember several years ago when I had just met my GF, she was doing some random temp work in Chicago, putting together ad pages for those stupid weekly fliers that you get in the newspaper and your mailbox.

It was all photoshop work, and she is quite pro with it. Everyone else would spend 6 hours a day editing their allotment of photos--not sure the amount for each project--and she would be done in ~30 minutes. The others would edit each individual photo the same way, then fit them altogether in their single page format.

GF would set up about 4 separate actions and burn through it instantly.

Of course, they could have just fired everyone else and hired her to do all the work, but no--they just fired everyone. lol.

 

[mmntech]

My parents ran their own business out of their basement for years. The downside is that people always expect you to be there. Office hours were from 8-5 but we'd get calls late in the evening for the business. Plus people traipsing through your house. There's still a big divot in their driveway from where my dad's business partner used to park his RAM 2500.

I guess with telecommuting, productivity is debatable. However, it's something that badly needs to be explored more. The insane amount of traffic on the roads during the day is more than a good enough reason.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I guess with telecommuting, productivity is debatable. However, it's something that badly needs to be explored more. The insane amount of traffic on the roads during the day is more than a good enough reason.

Can't argue with that. We have the technology, and this silly nonsense of everybody commuting from the suburbs to the city and back every day is not only rough on the planet, it's not physically sustainable - there isn't enough space on the roads!

 

[mizzou]

It's not about the hours, it's about the work product! Sounds like management needs to increase the workload >

 

[FoBoT]

i do as much work from home as i need to
however much i need to do, to keep up with my projects/assignments, that is how much i work from my house telecommuting, er, internet commuting or whatever it should be called

 

[yllus]

I think my company employs a few forum moderators who do about a few hours of work a day. The pay is pretty good too, but not enough to make a living on.

 

[bfdd]

I get to work from home twice a week, I do more than an hour at home for sure. I probably get in roughly the same amount of work and I get to do my laundry at the same time!

 

[nageov3t]

I work from home once a week... tbh, I'm usually more focused on work while at home than when I'm in the office.

when I'm in the office, I'd think nothing about strolling halfway across the building to grab a cup of coffee from the kitchen or stopping to chat with some coworkers for 10 minutes... when I'm at home, I feel guilty doing anything that involves leaving my home office.

 

[Greenman]

I worked from home for a few months about ten years back. Some day's I actually got an hours worth of work done, most day's were spent playing on my TFC server.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

And?

Today, I got into the office at 8:30 AM. I was done with my work by 10 AM. That's with about 20 minutes spent getting/eating breakfast. This isn't entirely uncommon in my office. I could just as easily work from home, and hell I would most likely get more done (provided the work was there to do). I can't tell you how uncomfortable my desk and shit is, let alone how easy it is to just get distracted by coworkers conversation. My boss, one coworker, and myself have spent a good 5 hours/week for the past few months talking about politics and random other shit.