Re:One-Third of O2 Staff say They are More Productive Workin...
by ap22213 on Thursday April 05, 2012 @07:16AM
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I work 3/5 days from home, and I'm way more productive.
BUT, I also find that it's been very, very difficult to build the relationships required to do effective innovation or research and development. There's just not enough recurrent team communication to get ideas to stick or be elaborated.
However, another variables in my case is that ~85% of my team is telecommuting from around the US. And, to make it worse, our team started off telecommute. I have only ever worked in-person with the rest of the team 3 times, ever.
I suspect that the best mix would be all of us working from home most of the time, but with more opportunities for 'all-hands' co-working team sessions.
BUT, I also find that it's been very, very difficult to build the relationships required to do effective innovation or research and development. There's just not enough recurrent team communication to get ideas to stick or be elaborated.
However, another variables in my case is that ~85% of my team is telecommuting from around the US. And, to make it worse, our team started off telecommute. I have only ever worked in-person with the rest of the team 3 times, ever.
I suspect that the best mix would be all of us working from home most of the time, but with more opportunities for 'all-hands' co-working team sessions.