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Pray for folks at Tesla
After sitting through an hour of traffic, I feel tremendous frustration at the completely avoidable pain that my fellow drivers and I must experience each workday. There are a ton of tech workers in the greater Seattle area. Great remote work infrastructure exists and companies with a lot of remote work capable employees have already put in place this infrastructure so they can enable their workers to work whenever and wherever. However, despite the above, companies like Microsoft have a culture in place that discourages people from mostly working remotely. (Discouragement comes in the form of setting an expectation that you will get worse reviews and thus lower bonuses and raises or even laid off.) Imagine how much better traffic around here would be if all the people who can effectively work from home did so. Imagine how much less co2 and pollution from cars there would be. Imagine how much happier remote workers would be from getting back 1 to 2.5 hours every workday because they skipped driving altogether. Why is this our reality? More importantly, how do we change it?
Move to salesforce
Or move to lyft. On a practical side, there are a few steps: -Give developers laptops instead of unportable desktops so everyone has a webcam. -Make every meeting come with skype (or something less crappy) by default instead of the extra add on that you have to ask to be added. -Get into a habit of video meetings by default than audio only. -Slack or some other team chat channel helps lots too (occasional 1-1 lync messages do not replace this need). -Finally a culture that it's ok to be productive remotely.
Stop living an hour from your job. It's your choice you want to live so far away.
There are reasons why someone would want to live in an area that might be far from work. A better education system for children, less crime, less homogenous communities, more entertainment, bars etc. It's not your choice that your company might choose a shitty location for their HQ.
That being said... You may choose a company that is closer to your preferred location of living.
Good idea!! I'm going to start a movement.
Bowel movement?
I'm sorry, it's just not as easy to communicate with you if you're not in the same vicinity as me. Working from home kills efficiency and quality, IMO. Do you hear as well on a conference call as in the room? Do they hear you as well? Do you talk as much?
It depends on what is being discussed as to whether or not efficiency is significantly affected, IMO. Not being able to hear well on a conference call happens more often than I would expect it should. If remote work was embraced more than perhaps call quality would be prioritized higher.
You might consider a move to Oracle, where working remotely is often named as the biggest perk amongst employees. In my experience there, it seems the remote-working culture is reinforced by simply reaping the business benefit. For example: reduced overhead costs, increased availability for global calls, quantifiable reduction in environmental impact, more leverage to pay minimum increases to employees, etc. But, as with all things in Corp culture, it probably won't be supported unless your manager, her manager, and her manager... all value the ability to work from home - themselves.
Most people at Cisco work from home at least half the time.
My neighbors, couple, are both from Cisco and they are home all week. But we're pretty sure they don't work more than a couple hours a day.
LOL. Amazing how much the world has changed since this thread was started. No more excuses by employers as we now have the data to prove WFH is better. It will never be 100% WFH but it will definitely never be 100% in office again.
I've been considering a change.org petition to allow workers beyond 10 miles from work to be remote at least 2-3 days a week. However I am not sure if employers are covered by law.
Haha good luck with this