From: utzoo!decvax!cca!mclure@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Re: Working at home - (nf)
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2377
Posted: Sun Aug  1 08:31:28 1982
Received: Mon Aug  2 01:19:58 1982

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sri-unix!mclure    Jul 30 22:44:00 1982

For all of you interested in "tele-commuting", I recommend Toffler's
THE THIRD WAVE, and its chapter "The Electronic Cottage". As far as 
I'm concerned, Toffler is a real soothsayer in that chapter.

I've been a tele-commuter for the last 3 years.  In my case it's fairly
trivial to go to work.  I live a block from SRI and spend 3-4 hours per
day at the office and the rest of the time (and a lot more) at home.
However, even if I didn't live so close, I doubt that this division
of time would change very much.

However, I can see how tele-commuting might not be everyone's cup of
tea.  Some married folks yearn to "get away" from unpleasant home
environments.  Others might find the office environment better suited
to working on a computer if it requires frequent high-bandwidth
interaction with co-worker.  Electronic mail often just isn't fast
enough!  But for programmers, I think tele-commuting is a gigantic win
if they have quiet surroundings and find the noise of offices
distracting.  The things I appreciate about working at home are:

	1) no noise
	2) good music
	3) good food
	4) other activities during lapses in programming

Because of these, I can work at a single task much longer than if I'm
at the office.

	Stuart