[Gllug] OT: Just probing the job market in London

[Richard Cohen]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Jackson, Harry wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: john.hearns at framestore.co.uk
> >
> >
> > But what happened to all the promise of technology we were told
> > about a few years ago?
> > Why aren't we all working in lovely cottages in small villages in the
> > highlands and islands and just remote logging in to work?
>
> 	Its not that the technology is not there. I think it is because an
> employer expects an honest days work for an honest days pay and do not trust
> there employees to do this at home. Its just a simple case of big brother
> feels the need to be able to watch you.

I have worked from home on a couple of occasions - one of my collegues works
one day a week at home every week, and one works 3 or 4 days a week at home
most weeks.

I couldn't work from home if it weren't for my ADSL (company-provided ADSL
doesn't cut it for real work).  Running X programs in the US and having them
display on my machine at home (albeit a little slowly) is the kind of thing
I've needed to do, and running stuff on my desktop machine at work and
having it display at home is crucial for me to test my work.  Of the two
collegues mentioned above, the one who works at home a lot has a cable
modem, and the other survives (I don't know how!) with a 56K analogue modem.

> Harry

Cheers
Richard


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