Carla Wilson (10/10/2007)
A few months ago, President Bush said he wanted to reduce fossil fuel consumption by 20%. That could be easy - work from home just one day a week!! Unfortunately, I now work in the health care industry, and our institution's human resourses department just won't approve it. I think it's because there are so many people in the organization that could not take advantage of it -- nurses, doctors and a lot of their support staff. Our department head even went so far as to interview other similar institutions to see if their IT departments allow limited work-from-home opportunities, and sadly, they all said, "No"!
I hate the "equity" argument - I find it usually gets trotted out when it's just something mgmt just doesn't want to do. Most don't get paged the way we do (we used to get paged more than most doctors in my organization, since there were 2400 of them and 12 of us); most don't get paged at all. Funny - that argument didn't work so well when we asked whether they were treating doctor pay for on-call work the same way as ours: since equity is "king" - the same argument ought to apply everywhere after all...
I got tired of fighting that war - so I've found somewhere new that actually appreciates my efforts. And - allows for telecommuting. Fancy that:)
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Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?