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Subject:Re: Do as I say, not as I do From:John Allred <john2 -at- allrednet -dot- com> To:"Porrello, Leonard" <lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com> Date:Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:54:14 -0600
What this highlights is the deep insecurity an alarmingly large number of people has in managing people and leveraging resources for the good of their organizations. You can't manage what you can't quantify. You can't quantify what you can't see.
John
On Feb 20, 2013, at 5:36 PM, "Porrello, Leonard" <lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com> wrote:
> If you can't work with your current company to allow you to telecommute, find another job that allows you to telecommute as soon as you can (if you can). When you resign, tell them that this is why. If enough people vote with their feet, employers will start to get it. Until that time, nothing much will change.
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> I love how companies have these "feel good" campaigns but they don't really mean it. Like the green thing.
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> They want us to be green. Don't print so much, don't pollute so much, and so on. And they put neat slogans on their emails like this:
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> Please do not print unless absolutely necessary. Spread environmental awareness
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> But they won't allow you to telecommute, so really, they are forcing you to pollute much more simply by driving to their office than all the possible printing you might do.
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> I figured it out one time for a company that had a website page / company group that was concerned with the environment. Letting people work from home even one day a week would have been ten times less pollution and wasting fuel than the program they were pushing of turning off lights, reducing printing, and so on.
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> Working full time from home was something like 150 times less waste.
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> Yet it is better for the company to make you waste fuel, time, create pollution, and so on than to let you work at home.
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