[ajug-members] Wipro coming to Atlanta

[Vincent]

I telecommute from home, fly to home base about 3-5 days a month or as
needed. The downside of telecommuting for me is the occasional feeling
of isolation. We use AIM, the phone and sometimes webex to collaborate.


Dean H. Saxe wrote:
> I'm with Justin.  I'm a consultant (no boos, please) and work from home
> 100% of the time when I am not on-site with a client.  This year that
> translates to about 75% of my time at home.  I generally love it, though
> occasionally I need a little socializing.  For me, and my other
> telecommuting coworkers, its highly productive.
> 
> How do we keep out team in touch?  Email, Skype (voice and text chat)
> and a yearly meeting of everyone in the organization.
> 
> -dhs
> 
> 
> Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH
> dean at fullfrontalnerdity.com
> "[U]nconstitutional behavior by the authorities is constrained only by
> the peoples' willingness to contest them"
>     --John Perry Barlow
> 
> 
> On Aug 7, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Justin Meads wrote:
> 
>> Great article.  For all of you hiring types out there, it would be
>> nice if you took note of one of his fundamental assumptions
>>
>> "You should seriously consider allowing your expert developers to
>> telecommute full-time. Restricting your search to programmers who live
>> in your area or are willing to move limits the talent you can acquire.
>> Arguments regarding "face time", productivity, etc. can easily be
>> nullified when you look at how some of the largest and most successful
>> Open Source projects such as Linux, Apache, and Firefox are developed
>> by individuals rarely living in the same time zone or even country."
>>
>> I have been a full-time remote worked for over 20 months now.  One
>> other member of my team is also full-time remote and the rest of the
>> team work from home two or three days a week.  I am required to spend
>> one week a quarter in the office so that i get a little face time.  I
>> am as productive today as when i use to work in the office (i just
>> spend a lot less time sitting in traffic).
>>
>> -Justin
>>
>> On Aug 6, 2007, at 8:20 PM, Dean H. Saxe wrote:
>>
>>> How topical...
>>>
>>> A Guide to Hiring Programmers: The High Cost of Low Quality
>>> http://blog.revsys.com/2007/08/a-guide-to-hiri.html
>>>
>>> Interesting read that plays very nicely into the discussion below.
>>>
>>> -dhs
>>>
>>>
>>> Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH
>>> dean at fullfrontalnerdity.com
>>> "What difference does it make to the dead,  the orphans, and the
>>> homeless, whether the  mad destruction is wrought under the name of
>>> totalitarianism or the holy name of  liberty and democracy? "
>>>     --Gandhi
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 2, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Dean H. Saxe wrote:
>>>
>>>> Amen, brother.  You definitely get what you pay for.  And we paid
>>>> for it with lots of hard work.
>>>>
>>>> -dhs
>>>>
>>>> Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH
>>>> dean at fullfrontalnerdity.com
>>>> "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or
>>>> that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only
>>>> unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American
>>>> public."
>>>>     -- Theodore Roosevelt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 2, 2007, at 11:19 PM, douglas at morganatlanta.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If you set your standards very high on the folks you will hire, you
>>>>> have a really tough time filling positions (even if you advertize
>>>>> on AJUG jobs), but if you set your standards lower, you will end up
>>>>> with crap for a product (I know.  I inherited one of those.  Ask
>>>>> Dean Saxe).  It still takes people to design products and write
>>>>> code, and the quality of the output depends on the quality of the
>>>>> input.  Do you think it is really easier to find great people in
>>>>> third-world countries than in the US?  While there are a lot of
>>>>> Indians and Chinese and Phillipinos, etc, they have a long way to
>>>>> go in terms of democratizing quality education in order to
>>>>> transform those large numbers of people into large numbers of
>>>>> qualified IT professionals, and the leadtime for producing IT
>>>>> professionals is rather long.  Given the growth rate of the need
>>>>> for IT professionals in the US and world wide, I don't see there
>>>>> being an excess of top-notch IT pros for a long time (or ever). 
>>>>> Not a high percentage of people from societies where people make
>>>>> $2000/yr end up getting Masters degrees in CS.  Those that do might
>>>>> manage to make a good living though, and might even end up getting
>>>>> to come to the US on an H1B.  I wish them the best of luck and hope
>>>>> they will send me their resume after they finish their "indentured
>>>>> servitude".
>>>>>
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