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 #R:brl-bmd:-28500:sri-unix:7300001:000:1236 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