Re: The Telecommuting Myth

[MAGGIE SECARA <SECARAM -at- MAINSAVER -dot- COM>]

Nina--it sounds like you've got a great system going. Would you be willing
to share the codes you use?

Cheers!

Maggie Secara

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nina Panzica [mailto:panin -at- MINDSPRING -dot- COM]
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 9:04 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: The Telecommuting Myth
>
>
> >> While there are certainly unscrupulous people who are less
> >> productive [off-site] ... how do honest people fight the
> >> perception that this is the rule rather than the exception?
>
> The only thing I can think of to add to David Brown's answer to this
> question is some detail about "communicating constantly."  This phrase
> doesn't just mean phone calls to me, although of course it's
> important you
> be proactive in that area and not wait for your manager to
> check in on you.
> Many employers really appreciate--particularly if they don't
> already have
> something like this in place--a weekly report from you in
> which you list (1)
> the activities you've performed or tasks accomplished that
> week (2) the
> things that you hope to accomplish next week and (3) any problems or
> difficulties you encountered or anticipate encountering.  With this
> narrative report I usually supply the client with an hourly
> time record in
> table format which has, as column headers: Date, Time Spent
> on that day
> doing a particular task, Code for the Task, Description of
> the Task.  The
> codes for the task appear in a legend under my table and
> cover specific
> writing tasks such as manual layout or desktop publishing, editing,
> indexing, research, meetings or interviews, graphics creation, review,
> incorporating others' edits, etc. There are about 15-20 of
> these codes.  In
> the description column, I give brief but detailed notes about
> what part of
> the document I was working on, subject of meeting and who it
> was with, what
> specific subtasks within the general task I did, etc.
>


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