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Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:02:24 -0400
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 7:04 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 05:35:45PM -0700, Scott Weeks wrote:One day, hopefully, telecommuting really takes off [...]It often strikes me as incredibly ironic that companies which *would not exist* were it not for the Internet are among the most resistant to the simple, obvious concept that telecommuting allows them to hire the best and brightest regardless of geography. Telecommuting should not be a rare exception: it should be the default. And "corporate headquarters" should be as small and inexpensive as possible, staffed (in person) only by a handful of people -- if even that. Asking net admins to do stupid, wasteful, expensive things like "commute 3 hours a day" and "live in areas with ridiculously inflated housing prices" is a good way to filter *out* the employees one would most like to have.
Something like 40% of IBM'ers telecommute, saving IBM $2.9B (if you believe some PR). And IBM is about as large and bloated, report heavy, mgmt heavy, conference call heavy, that a company can get. :-) -Jim P.
Current thread:
- Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins, (continued)
- Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins Scott Weeks (Jul 25)
- Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins Rich Kulawiec (Jul 26)
- Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins jim deleskie (Jul 26)
- Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins Michael Thomas (Jul 26)
- Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins Darius Jahandarie (Jul 26)
- Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins William Herrin (Jul 26)
- Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins Michael Thomas (Jul 26)
- Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins Rich Kulawiec (Jul 26)
- Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins Joly MacFie (Jul 26)
- Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins Miles Fidelman (Jul 26)
- Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins Ruairi Carroll (Jul 27)
- Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins Scott Weeks (Jul 25)
- Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins Jim Popovitch (Jul 26)
- Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 26)
- Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins Sean Donelan (Jul 27)
- Re: [OPINION] Best place in the US for NetAdmins Jack Bates (Jul 26)