Recently I finally got around to listening the Paul Graham's speech mentioned in the Telework people book. Apart from the sentence quoted in the book, I loved this: "If you can't make people work, you can at least prevent them from having fun" (around 15th minute). I think it is almost impossible to work every day eight or more hours straight or only with very short breaks and stay productive. I've worked in a few offices and I think you can see clearly that many people are extremely happy when they find something that looks like work, but it is very relaxing for them (like meetings mentioned by Paul).
I think teleworking can help people be much more relaxed and work when and where they feel like doing it and therefore be much more productive (meaning: six or less hours of teleworking can be better for the company than eight or more hours in the office).
Paul Graham
Recently I finally got around to listening the Paul Graham's speech mentioned in the Telework people book. Apart from the sentence quoted in the book, I loved this: "If you can't make people work, you can at least prevent them from having fun" (around 15th minute). I think it is almost impossible to work every day eight or more hours straight or only with very short breaks and stay productive. I've worked in a few offices and I think you can see clearly that many people are extremely happy when they find something that looks like work, but it is very relaxing for them (like meetings mentioned by Paul).
I think teleworking can help people be much more relaxed and work when and where they feel like doing it and therefore be much more productive (meaning: six or less hours of teleworking can be better for the company than eight or more hours in the office).