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Subject:Re: US Professional issues From:"Amy G. Peacock" <apeacock -at- WOLFENET -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:42:55 -0700
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Elna Tymes wrote:
>There's a general resistance to telecommuting in most parts of the
>country, as many of us have observed. Why? I can only guess. I
>suspect that a lot of companies still have this nagging fear of 'if
>I can't see you, you're not working' when it comes to contractors.
I wonder if once you have done the telecommute thing it would be
easier to get a telecommuting job? (Kind of a twist on the Catch
22...) Do you become more trustworthy after proving that you can do
the job without someone standing over you all the time?
Amy Peacock
techwriter & jewelrymaker
Snohomish, Washington
apeacock -at- wolfenet -dot- com
