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Subject:Re: WWW and Telecommuting From:Romay Jean Sitze <rositze -at- NMSU -dot- EDU> Date:Sun, 17 Sep 1995 16:49:19 -0600
On Sat, 16 Sep 1995, Worthington wrote:
> Lot of employers have yet to acknowledge that tech writers are mature
> enough to handle this. My last assignment required that I show every day
> even though I could have handled most of the work from home. In fact my
> equipment at home is superior to that I had to work with at WORK!
I had a similar experience in my last job. Toward the end of my term
with them, I occasionally took work home. I found that I could turn out
the same type of material in almost half the time at home because my
system is so much better. At work, I used a 286 PC with all DOS programs
for the first 6 mo. This was then upgraded to a 486 SX25 running all
Windows programs. The monitor was a little 14" model (at home, I use a
486 DX50 SCSI system--not quite a pentium, but still relatively good,
with a 19" screen--all the difference in the world!
Add to this the lack of outside distractions so concentration was more
total, and productivity was really superior.
