I've been seriously considering writing up a white paper for the leadership in my organization discussing exactly this. I work at a University and we already have a better-than-average infrastructure in place for this sort of work... cisco system allows us to forward our office lines to our cell so we can answer the phone as if we're in the office, VPN is set up, remote desktop already configured, etc... we just don't USE IT unless it's absolutely necessary - which is asinine to me.
This offer quite a few good points to consider. I've been pondering advocating the old "results-oriented" approach - figuring out real data-driven metrics that would determine the success or failure of someone opting to try remote work. That way we'd know who's cut out for this sort of work (everyone THINKS they are, but in reality not everyone can function on their own) and who needs to be subject to the old "butts in seat" method.
Thank you for an engaging article -and giving me the final push to get rolling!
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Great read, Kevin!
I've been seriously considering writing up a white paper for the leadership in my organization discussing exactly this. I work at a University and we already have a better-than-average infrastructure in place for this sort of work... cisco system allows us to forward our office lines to our cell so we can answer the phone as if we're in the office, VPN is set up, remote desktop already configured, etc... we just don't USE IT unless it's absolutely necessary - which is asinine to me.
This offer quite a few good points to consider. I've been pondering advocating the old "results-oriented" approach - figuring out real data-driven metrics that would determine the success or failure of someone opting to try remote work. That way we'd know who's cut out for this sort of work (everyone THINKS they are, but in reality not everyone can function on their own) and who needs to be subject to the old "butts in seat" method.
Thank you for an engaging article -and giving me the final push to get rolling!