Re: Work from home/security issues.

[Mark Dempsey <mxd2 -at- OSI -dot- COM>]

Besides telling us company office-building delays often
prevent tech writer comfort, Melonie reminds us of some of
the real world constraints on companies in general. How many
of us have started work where it's taken the company two weeks
to set up the computer we're to use?

One contribution we tech writers can make to successfully
dealing with these constraints (other than telecommuting) is
letting our companies know that unless they build offices near
housing, every worker is a non-productive commute-in-the-making.
All the  brouhaha about "Smart Growth" boils down to this. Unless
the slightly technical field of land-use planning does
something to cut commuting, we're going to have brown air
in more places than L.A. Dozens of Atlanta's federally-
funded freeway projects were recently shut down because they
would make the already horrible smog and congestion worse.

Those interested can look at
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/1059/editorials.html for
more information.

Acting locally, thinking globally....

melonie -dot- holliman -at- AMD -dot- COM wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> For the most part, I agree. This is a great sign that
> a company has no consideration for their employees.
> However, Austin is growing at such an incredible rate
> that I have seen companies who literally have NO place
> to grow to. I worked in one company who had leased
> a new building and had to wait months before they
> could move in. During those months we were 4 to a
> cube (couldn't move your chair without hitting the guy
> behind you) and the company let us telecommute
> some. I interviewed at another company who was
> waiting for their new building to be built. In the interim,
> it was 2-3 to an office built for one.
>
> If I were in that situation again, I would ask why we
> were having to share. Are they having trouble finding
> new space? Are they waiting on a new building site?
> What is the deal? If it is an interim situation that the
> company is trying to remedy, (given that I am happy
> there) I would stay and suffer through it. If the company
> does not want to rent more space because of cost,
> I would get out just as fast as I can. Almost every
> company cares about the bottom line more than the
> employees, however, that shows a blatant disregard
> for an employees welfare and it will show up in other
> ways as well. It also shows bad business sense,
> because employees will be less productive in those
> situations.
>
> About convincing them to telecommute, the only way
> is to bug them until they let you then PROVE it works.
> Well, you can threaten to leave also. Search the
> archives for justifications, but if they don't want to hear,
> only threats which you are willing to carry out might work.
> Melonie R. Holliman
> Technical Writer
> CG MarCom
> Advanced Micro Devices
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Posada [SMTP:jposada01 -at- YAHOO -dot- COM]
> >
> > Get out.  They are not making decisions geared toward
> > growth and future. They are making decisions geared
> > toward stashing cash over increased productivity and
> > profit. I'd almost throw out the idea that they are
> > shopping themselves around, but this is only
> > conjecture and based on a similar situation I was at.
> >
> >
>
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