On 07/26/2014 07:57 AM, William Herrin wrote:
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 7:04 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> 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
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 05:35:45PM -0700, Scott Weeks wrote: the best and brightest regardless of geography. Hi Rich,
It's hard to manage
There, I fixed it for you. Mike
telecommuters. Any manager can see whether or not you're at your desk, but gauging your work output and assessing whether it's happening at an appropriate rate is actually pretty challenging.
This is especially true of systems administration where the ideal output of your efforts is that nothing is observed to have happened -- you prevented all problems from escalating to where they became visible. So not only does your manager have to be really good at management, he has to understand your work well enough to assess the quality and quantity of your results too.
In other words, you may be asking more of your manager than you're willing to ask of yourself. Generally speaking, you're more valuable to a company if that equation is the other way around.
Regards, Bill Herrin