{"id":1033,"date":"2009-04-30T14:37:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T19:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2010-01-28T07:46:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T12:46:40","slug":"green-pigs-telecommuting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"Green Pigs & Telecommuting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The current flu scare is for the pigs. I am home for a few days with some kind of upper respiratory problem. It has been hanging on for months. However, it has just recently gotten worse. <oink?> The latest media scare tactics about the swine flu has everyone in the USA in a panic. I went to the doctor but didn’t get the swab test, so there is no “name” for what I am enduring. \u00a0I have more pills to take.<\/p>\n

No aches or a pain (other than my PN) so I don’t think it is the swine flu. Slight 100 F fever. Just a deep cough slightly productive that has everyone at the office cringing. For their benefit and mine I am doing some of the “Green” telecommuting. Most of what I do at the office is by computer anyway. I will probably be doing a lot more of this even when fully well. It is the wave of the future.<\/p>\n

I owned a Dodge RAM hemi and the 250 miles a week commute to the office (when gas hit the high end) cost me $100 a week for the privilege of driving to work. That would be $5000\/year! I traded for the VW GTI (high performance but good mileage) and cut gas cost nearly 75%. Not commuting at all is even better gas expense and good for the environment.<\/p>\n

This work from home is creating a whole new way of people management. No longer can a manager be watching the clock for employee hours spent in the office. Part of the business world obsession with KPI metrics<\/a>, is having a (KPI) Key Performance Indicator to measure and post on a chart. Time is a fairly easy component of a metric. That is changing.<\/p>\n

Only certain types of occupations are suitable to telecommuting. Productive salaried (exempt) workers generally spend much more than the 40 hours a week at their occupation, not counting commuting. I am running 50 to 60 hours per week including commute. With telecommuting, the results are more important than counting hours sitting in a chair or automobile. Perhaps my long hours could come back to normal, whatever that is…<\/p>\n

There is still time that should\/must be spent face to face with peers and customers. A balance is soon discovered. It is a new wave of office based working that has been a long time coming. All that was needed to get it started was some green pigs…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The current flu scare is for the pigs. I am home for a few days with some kind of upper respiratory problem. It has been hanging on for months. However, it has just recently gotten worse. <oink?> The latest media scare tactics about the swine flu has everyone in the USA in a panic. I went to the doctor but didn’t get the swab test, so there is no “name” for what I am enduring....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schneider-electric","tag-professional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}