[Ipg-smz] The train from hell?

[Mac McCarthy]

I think wee can all think of people we'd love to have telecommuting, rather
than in the office with us!

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 1:28 PM Alan Zeichick via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> Full-time telecommuting works great for people like me — people who are
> quite senior, know what they are doing, aren’t looking for mentoring/on the
> job training, know how to manage people both up and down the org remotely,
> and who are assertive enough to make themselves known outside their
> specific working group.
>
> Telecommuting, by contrast, often leaves behind junior employees,
> especially those who are looking to grow in their careers. They simply
> aren’t known, and don’t get to sit in formal/informal meetings where they
> can learn and gain visibility.
>
> I’ve seen that often at companies as diverse as IDG, Miller Freeman, my
> own BZ Media, and now at Oracle — people in the office get asked to join
> new project teams, get grabbed for informal brainstorming meetings, gain
> visibility and skills, impress people. They then get promotions within
> their own department, and elsewhere in the org.
>
> By contrast, telecommuting junior employees can easily be left behind,
> unless they have a manager who is very good at remembering to loop in
> his/her telecommuting direct reports, and other managers in the
> organization who take the time to learn who they are and interact with with
> them. And that is hard, especially if the manager is very busy with his/her
> own work, has a lot of direct reports, or simply isn’t a good
> manager/advocate for his/her workers.
>
> Heck, BZ Media itself wouldn’t have happened if I telecommuted. Instead, I
> got to know the “B” because, despite working in different divisions of
> Miller Freeman (I was in Software Development, he was in Electronics), we
> were in the same building and got to talking. Ted asked me one day if I’d
> like to work with him on a small project. That led to a bigger project, and
> then a bigger project, and then we had created a whole new group. Then we
> left Miller Freeman and started BZ Media. If I was a telecommuting chief
> editor, we’d likely never have even met.
>
> -A
>
> On Oct 29, 2019, at 1:09 PM, Kishore Jethanandani via Ipg-smz <
> ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>      Companies are so wedded to on-site work ostensibly because it aids
> collaboration. Oh my, there is more politics than collaboration. At a
> recent Singularity University Summit, one speaker reported statistics from
> a survey which found that, when workers are asked anonymously,
> ninety-percent said they would prefer to work alone. The conclusion was
> that we need more co-ordination, not collaboration.
>
> Best,
>
>
> Kishore
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> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 1:02 PM Tom Henderson via Ipg-smz <
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>
>> I can understand the freakout.
>>
>> I'm still fully for shared transportation models, especially trains.
>>
>> I've used them across the planet. Why they didn't open doors, I'm not
>> sure. Seems harrowing.
>>
>> This happened to me once in Paris on the RER train. They didn't open the
>> doors. We were aghast. Then the doors opened two stops later. Why? Turns
>> out, much teargas around the station due to a local insurrection.... and
>> the fumes were traveling down the tunnel.
>>
>> Ok, good enough.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> On 10/29/19 1:51 PM, David Needle via Ipg-smz wrote:
>>
>>
>> My wife just emailed me this from her office in Palo Alto:
>>
>>
>> very quiet here -- Caltrain horror stories from the SF commuters -- the
>> train doors wouldn't open when they stopped in Palo Alto! same thing in
>> Mountain View!  people were freaking out. Finally got off the train in
>> Santa Clara or something and took an uber to work -- $45 and 2.5 hours...
>>
>>
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