Comments on: Work is a thing we do, not a place we go http://blog.wildfirepr.co.uk/2009/11/work-is-a-thing-we-do-not-a-place-we-go/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Vysia Duffield http://blog.wildfirepr.co.uk/2009/11/work-is-a-thing-we-do-not-a-place-we-go/comment-page-1/#comment-8397 Vysia Duffield Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:06:00 +0000 http://blog.wildfirepr.co.uk/?p=517#comment-8397 Great article! I've done both but I prefer working in the office as opposed to working from home. Perhaps it's because I'm a very sociable person, but I like interacting with my colleagues, and I personally think that there is more capacity for feedback and communication in an environment where colleagues are physically together compared to if they had to communicate via email. Also, I work better when there are people around me, even if we don't talk. Their very presence gives me motivation to work harder because I feel like we're all in it together so I have to contribute what I can. But that's just me. That being said, I don't enjoy my 2 hour commute to work, so perhaps a flexibility for both would be the way forward. Great article! I’ve done both but I prefer working in the office as opposed to working from home. Perhaps it’s because I’m a very sociable person, but I like interacting with my colleagues, and I personally think that there is more capacity for feedback and communication in an environment where colleagues are physically together compared to if they had to communicate via email. Also, I work better when there are people around me, even if we don’t talk. Their very presence gives me motivation to work harder because I feel like we’re all in it together so I have to contribute what I can.

But that’s just me.

That being said, I don’t enjoy my 2 hour commute to work, so perhaps a flexibility for both would be the way forward.

]]> By: Bob Hannent http://blog.wildfirepr.co.uk/2009/11/work-is-a-thing-we-do-not-a-place-we-go/comment-page-1/#comment-8277 Bob Hannent Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:02:25 +0000 http://blog.wildfirepr.co.uk/?p=517#comment-8277 I have always taken the view that you don't pay me to be at my desk, you pay me for the work I do. I may sometimes be paid to be somewhere at a particular time and often that is the office. However, most of my work is emails, calls or meetings and only a small percentage of that requires me to be at my desk. The only reason I am really at my desk is for the perceived convenience of others. Bob I have always taken the view that you don’t pay me to be at my desk, you pay me for the work I do. I may sometimes be paid to be somewhere at a particular time and often that is the office. However, most of my work is emails, calls or meetings and only a small percentage of that requires me to be at my desk. The only reason I am really at my desk is for the perceived convenience of others.

Bob

]]> By: Richard Leyland http://blog.wildfirepr.co.uk/2009/11/work-is-a-thing-we-do-not-a-place-we-go/comment-page-1/#comment-8264 Richard Leyland Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:55:14 +0000 http://blog.wildfirepr.co.uk/?p=517#comment-8264 Hello! I'm the founder of WorkSnug and the guy who write the script for our film: "Work is a thing we do, not a place we go". Thanks for your thoughts. I think the issue between your grandparents and you is that they worked at a time when the office was an instrument of control - There was even a set of rules (Taylorism) that codified this control. Now the digital age has made all of that obsolete. Trust is another matter though. Knowledge workers can work anywhere, but our ability to do that has developed before we can write a new set of rules which govern how we keep that efficient and effective. Trust may even be unwise! Richard Leyland WorkSnug Hello!

I’m the founder of WorkSnug and the guy who write the script for our film: “Work is a thing we do, not a place we go”. Thanks for your thoughts.

I think the issue between your grandparents and you is that they worked at a time when the office was an instrument of control – There was even a set of rules (Taylorism) that codified this control. Now the digital age has made all of that obsolete.

Trust is another matter though. Knowledge workers can work anywhere, but our ability to do that has developed before we can write a new set of rules which govern how we keep that efficient and effective. Trust may even be unwise!

Richard Leyland
WorkSnug

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