Comments on: Web Work – Who Benefits? http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/06/05/web-work-who-benefits/ Rebooting the workforce Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:53:31 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Alan Wilensky http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/06/05/web-work-who-benefits/#comment-296308 Alan Wilensky Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:22:11 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=2495#comment-296308 I no longer take jobs where my buttocks must be in a seat, in a cube, at a place. Even between contracts, when things can get pinched, I wont do it, unless its a long haul off site at a very high hourly, like when I go to SF bay for a 6 monther. I was on RT 128 (MA) and I was doing personal business, and all around me the highway (built in the 1950s when families had one car) was clogged. It was so bad, that I wanted to pull over and just get an apartment where ever I happened to be at. I thought, 'these people here in this traffic jam, do they do this every day? I couldn't do it (I used to years ago). How much could they be getting done at home? How many really need to have their asses in a chair, in a cube, at a place??" The bosses don't trust them to make calls? Write reports? Code? How much does the economy lose to this twice a day hemorrhaging of fuel, human energy, and psychic juice spent in traffic? Plenty. I no longer take jobs where my buttocks must be in a seat, in a cube, at a place. Even between contracts, when things can get pinched, I wont do it, unless its a long haul off site at a very high hourly, like when I go to SF bay for a 6 monther.

I was on RT 128 (MA) and I was doing personal business, and all around me the highway (built in the 1950s when families had one car) was clogged. It was so bad, that I wanted to pull over and just get an apartment where ever I happened to be at.

I thought, ‘these people here in this traffic jam, do they do this every day? I couldn’t do it (I used to years ago). How much could they be getting done at home? How many really need to have their asses in a chair, in a cube, at a place??”

The bosses don’t trust them to make calls? Write reports? Code?

How much does the economy lose to this twice a day hemorrhaging of fuel, human energy, and psychic juice spent in traffic?

Plenty.

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