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I have telecommuted for several gigs and positions. The most difficult situation to deal with is when most of the rest of the company doesn't telecommute, so ev
by crenelle 15y ago
I have telecommuted for several gigs and positions. The most difficult situation to deal with is when most of the rest of the company doesn't telecommute, so everyone is not in the habit of cluing you in to what's going on. You may have all the tools required to establish and maintain decent communications, but they often don't bother to adopt any of it for their end. I even remote-developed for a large networking company with enormous communications facilities designed to solve problems like that -- but they had me fly over to headquarters all the time instead.
- chc 15y agoSpeaking from experience, this can be a problem even when you're not telecommuting.
- dpritchett 15y agoThanks for bringing up that bit about being left out by coworkers. It reminded me of a passage from "Being Geek". Luckily the book is largely compiled from blog posts and here's the relevant post by Rands on the inadvertent exclusion faced by lone telecommuters attached to onsite teams: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2009/04/15/the_pond.html http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2009/04/15/the_pond.ht...