Microsoft can get MOOFed
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Microsoft on
I got a press release from the Microsoft PR people this morning, suggesting that maybe now is the time I should start changing my work habits and get a little more flexible. Microsoft, it appears, wants me to get MOOFing.
Ah yes, that would be the Mobile Out Of Office thing, MOOF you see, that prompted Microsoft to build an office up a tree last month wouldn’t it? Apparently some research or other concluded that 75% of people reckon the ability to work flexibly as being a deciding factor when looking for a new job, and 50% amazingly suggest work would be less stressful if they could have a tad more say in where that work was done. Listen up Microsoft, work would not be less stressful just because you were doing it up a bloody tree!
The reasons that the press release gave for me to considering joining the MOOF set were equally amusing, and for the most part easily debunked as far as my circumstances are concerned.
Let’s see, ah yes “extreme weather causing Summer chaos, floods of epic proportions” was number one on the list. I can relate to that, being located in South Yorkshire, with a Doncaster postcode. In fact my village was amongst the first to get flooded right at the start of the rain epidemic a couple of months back. In further fact, my village was so flooded that the road in and out was submerged and nothing could get through apart from my farmer neighbour with his biggest tractor. In even further flipping fact, the electricity was kindly removed from the village when the sub-station also sank without trace. Mobile Out Of Office? I was immobile, stuck in my office, and unable to work. And I already work from home
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