Comments on: Tell Your Boss: Benefits of Telecommuting

By: Amelia

Amelia — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:38:54 +0000

I am really interested in the possibilities of telecommuting. I have been diagnosed with panic attacks and the idea of having them at work is petrifying. Much of what I do can be done online but I’m not sure how my school would respond to a telecommuting position. Are there any agencies that provide staffing for telecommuting positions for librarians?

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:09:36 +0000

After a decision to move back to NY (from Colorado) I am in the process of submitting a proposal for making my a teleworking Emerging Technologies Librarian. All but two of my “Duties & Responsibilities” are done online. What I am having the most trouble with is creating a method of measurement of my projects and responsibilities. We have been doing a trial where I work from home a 2-3 days/week, using email, Skype and chat for communication. Anyone have suggestions on verbiage for the measurement part? Self evaluation and creating evaluations for the students who take the online classes we will be implementing (one of my duties) are in the works, I also created a “Work Journal” to note what I am doing on a daily basis (this was built on the hard copy work journal that I keep anyway).

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By: Paul Buehler

Paul Buehler — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:36:17 +0000

I work at Cisco, (one of your examples), and use our virtual office solution. I have the same IP phone/laptop setup at my home as I have at the office. When I call someone I just dial their extension. To get on the Cisco network I just plug my laptop cable into the router. It’s simple, and I’m so incredibly more productive since I’ve been working from my home office. As I spend most of my day on conference and video calls, half the people I work with don’t even know that I am a mobile worker. In fact, I get invited to lunch all the time and have to remind my co-workers I live 800 miles away. Teleworking is really a mindset change, and companies who do not adopt will be left behind. There is no way to compete with the productivity gains, lower real estate and overhead costs, and talent retention that teleworking companies can provide.

By: Anna Creech

Anna Creech — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:06:54 +0000

My “office” is a cube farm, and my cube is right next to the conference table and high-traffic area. I’d love to have the opportunity to work in a quiet space alone without distractions, and my home office can provide that.

Most of the literature on telecommuting that I have seen indicates that people are more productive when working from home, and yet there is still a perception that working from home is code for slacking off or doing home-stuff instead of work-stuff. Suggesting that folks trade salary or benefits for being able to work from home doesn’t help that situation very much, nor is it a fair for an employer to ask for that.

By: rcn

rcn — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:35:03 +0000

I do hope you told your boss!

~rcn

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By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:15:27 +0000

To Stephen: Where I work, our staff are going to be getting a pay and benefits cut, pretty much no matter what. It makes sense to me that our union, or others in our position, might think creatively about the concessions to demand that might lessen the mental and morale impact on the staff…like offering telecommuting. I don’t think anyone should have to give up pay to get telecommuting. Absolutely not. But I do think that it’s seen in most organizations as a benefit still, so why not ask for it if you don’t already have it? Now, when they’re taking everything else away from us, seems like a good time.

To Marcie: I think that people who predominantly work on the front desk with customers have a harder time. Obviously you can’t do most of your job from home. But you could take perhaps a day a month, at least, where you save up work that you can do from home: an online-chat reference shift, some quarterly report writing, updating social media sites, updating the events database, planning a program. It can’t be done all the time — but even just once in a while would probably be nice!

By: Justine Shaffner

Justine Shaffner — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:08:48 +0000

Sarah, thanks so much for this – I’m doing presentations on how libraries can be greener, and it talks about telecommunting, but all these hard facts will be a god send so I’ll be directing people to this post. I too work from home one day a week and am so grateful I always work at least a straight ten hour day! – Justine