Rise of Telecommuting and Bad Management
Telecommuting is the new way of working. It suits better employees since they can spend more time at home. It suits better employers since they pay for a result and not anymore for a specific slice of time. Employers and employees spare money since one pays less office space and the others spare commuting costs. It can be partial (only a few days) to complete (”irl” meeting happens only a few times a year).
Telecommuting does not enforce a new organisation. Usually it is the same, a little bit more rigourous and supported by tons of low cost IT (e.g. VPN, Intranet). There is only one to three days a week in the workplace; the others are at home. Meetings and main communication happen during those workplace time. ((A totally telecommuting organisation requires a deeper organisational shift.)) This kind of telecommutign is widely accepted and practiced from center operators to executives.
To my surprise, some companies (luckily not mine) refuse to allow telecommuting at all. What I do not understand in this case is why they hire people since they obviously do not trust them. I even do not understand why employee now accept such a disrespectful policies.
