No snow day for mobile workers
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
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The dream that is working from home has been realised, thanks to the miracle of broadband. Now, we can balance our work and life, and still manage to do our jobs when the office isn’t available.
Great. Who’s stupid idea was that?
Thanks to the glory that is the internet, I’m able to work from home today. As London is rendered useless by masses of lovely snow, I’m working, because — lucky me! — I’m one of the legion of mobile workers.
It’s bad enough that when I’m home sick I feel compelled to curl up with my laptop in addition to my lemsip, but now I don’t even get snow days. One of my flatmates is also parked in front of a computer, as she can clearly do her job online. The other is an engineer, and really actually needs to be in the office in order to work. She’s off walking in the snow right now, the snowman she made earlier mocking me from out front our house.
Mobile computing might offer great benefits to somebody; today I really don’t feel like it’s me. But it’s lunch break now, and I intend to use mine to smash that damn snowman and build an even bigger one…
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Working whenever, wherever
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
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I’m not at home, but I am working. I’m writing this in the visitor centre of Microsoft’s Redmond campus, where I’m attending a press conference.
After all the travel I’ve done this week, I wish I were at home. Waking up in a hotel every day isn’t actually all that great — even when the hotel room is three times the size of my room in London.
If I were working from home, I’d probably check my email from my bedroom (in my pyjamas, of course), get dressed and then move my laptop down to the kitchen, from where I’d write and make calls (rather than rushing to get dressed so I’m not late for work).
If it were nice out, I’d maybe go work on some stories in the back garden — thank you, wireless — while I work on my tan (rather than let the flourescent lighting in the office continue to make me look ill).
I’m not big on working at coffee shops, but I may walk over to the local one for lunch, or just make my own in the kitchen (rather than take my daily walk to Tescos for a crappy sandwich.)
Not that I mind the office — I’d rather go in most days of the week than stay at home alone all the time. I think, for me at least, the benefit comes in breaking things up a bit. I’m happiest if I can be in the office a few days, be at events now and then, and work from home from time to time — hey, look, flexible working.
That’s a few paragraphs to get me to my question: Are any of you working from home today? And if so, what’s your daily routine like?
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Working whenever, wherever
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
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Location, they say, is everything. But the whole point of mobile, flexible working is that location no longer matters, right?
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Working whenever, wherever
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The first hurdle with mobile working is trying to figure out how to connect. The hotel I
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