Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!agate!mrmarx!jks@uunet.UU.NET From: mrmarx!jks@uunet.UU.NET Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Working at Home Message-ID: <11235@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 21 Jun 88 14:52:00 GMT References: <11167@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Decision Software Co, Cambridge, MA Lines: 24 Approved: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu To: Path: mrmarx!jks From: jks@mrmarx.UUCP (Jan Stetson) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Working at Home Message-ID: <1580@mrmarx.UUCP> Date: 21 Jun 88 14:52:09 GMT References: <11167@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: jks@mrmarx.UUCP (Jan Stetson) Organization: Decision Software Co, Cambridge, MA Lines: 11 > >Because firms discovered that: It's my impression that firms have never really tried it. Most of the prople I know who do substantial work at home do so by special arrangement with their employer. I suspect that fear of loss of control over employees etc. has precluded actually finding out what would happen. - jks -