[lbo-talk] $105 oil?

[joanna]

I can only speak for telecommuting in hi tech & yes, it appears to be 
big. In my twenty years as a tech writer, I have only worked on-site 
about six years. All the rest of the time, I have basically worked at 
home ( as a full time permanent worker; temps, of course, usually work 
at home). The pluses are that's it's cheaper and more flexible; the 
minuses are that it's lonely, that you're always at work, and that 
anything that can be done from a distance, can be done from a BIG 
distance--that is, outsourced.

The hi tech industry seems to like telecommuting more and more, and even 
though managers don't like the loss of control, it is clearly an 
advantage to companies if you pay your own office rent. The major 
company I work for tells us that it saves 75,000/year for each employee 
who works at home. Tha'ts not chump change. They save enough money that 
they're willing to pay my phone bill and my cable modem, which is nice.

I would guess that to the extent that telecommuting is feasable, it will 
be the direction that corps go.

J.

ThatRogersWoman wrote:


>--- Doug quoted:
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>>Oil could top $105 in major supply outage: expert
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>The resulting gas prices from $105 oil would, among so many other
>things, gut the ability of workers to get to jobs in major
>metroplexes that are geographically spread out, surrounded by suburbs
>and have inadequate or no mass transportation, e.g., Houston, Dallas,
>LA.  Have there been any serious signs of companies moving towards
>more telecommuting, or is telecommuting just a buzzword among a
>select few?
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> - Deborah
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