How High Gas Prices Might Help Your Work Situation

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  beulahdiane08/01/08 Report as spam
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  RE: How High Gas Prices Might Help Your Work Situation

  Sean, there is no justification for high gas prices no matter how you want to skew it.

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  kevinj100008/01/08 Report as spam
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  RE: How High Gas Prices Might Help Your Work Situation

  I currently work 3-4 days a week from home, commuting 70 miles each way only on Fridays and for special meetings. It has worked out very well, the company saves on average $120/ week on my gas card and I don't spend 12 hours a week on the road, this time is better spent working on projects, my day is still as long, but instead of driving 3 hours a day (typically non productive time)I am able to be productive.

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  ribbonridge08/01/08 Report as spam
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  RE: How High Gas Prices Might Help Your Work Situation

  I actually work for a virtual company, they found out years ago that they couldn't always find the top talent in one location so we all work from home. We get a monthly allowance to run our offices. Because there are only 30 of us we do have company meetings twice a year so you see and talk to the real people. Monthly conference calls keep everyone up to date on company wide projects and of course we do a lot of communication via instant messaging. It's a great way to work.

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  Donald Barbas08/01/08 Report as spam
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  RE: How High Gas Prices Might Help Your Work Situation

  There are also some drawbacks: The employer finds out that he can get by with fewer regular employees; if the work can be done from home it can also be done from India; unless the manager can measure results he loses track of productivity.The trend is to shift workers from full-time to part-time without the health benefits. Be careful with your wishes.
  Donald Barbas, MBA

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  gmoeller109/15/08 Report as spam
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  RE: How High Gas Prices Might Help Your Work Situation

  During weeks with an unusually high workload (in excess of 10 hrs / day) I spend a day working from home. Prep / driving time becomes productive rather than wasted, and remaining time is more efficiently utilized because there's less opportunity for chit-chat & add-on tasks that are great for relationship building but not so hot for clearing out priority work. With better focus and fewer interruptions I don't get as stressed so the next day I'm alert and motivated when I come into the office.
  
  In truth, I could be more effective working from home 3 days a week & alloting face-time tasks to the remaining 2 days, but I understand this is probably not true of everyone on the team so I don't push it.
  
  Management must consider the big picture, not just my little piece of it, so my work-from-home days are still an "exception" strategy used once or twice a month.

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