Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Telecommuting Lowers Job Stress, Especially For Women
KMWorld.com: The Future of the Future: Boundary-less living, working and learning
Blurring the lines between work, life, and learning. I don't think most of us are completely at this boundary-less balance yet, but working from home certainly does change where my boundaries are.
<p>The bottom line: Organizations can no longer focus strictly on working, while ignoring living and learning. Neither can you, as a knowledge professional. The enterprise of the future must bring all three of those areas into balance.</p><p>Living means loving what you do and finding fulfillment in it. Working means doing what you love, in a way that is both challenging and rewarding. Learning means continually making new discoveries and putting those discoveries to work, both personally and professionally.</p><p>In essence, you and your organization, and your extended network, are now co-dependent. Your ability to grow is limited if your organization and network aren’t growing. Likewise, if you aren’t growing, you are inhibiting the growth of the organizations to which you belong. Think brain trust, as opposed to assembly line.</p>
A List Apart: Articles: The Rules of Digital Engagement
Communication for virtual teams, including ideas for dealing with conflict and keeping morale up. I agree with the idea of debriefing on long projects regularly rather than just at the end of a project; you can adapt and correct course more easily, plus everyone stays more connected.
Working from home « Design for Learning
Natalie Kilkenny writes about how much more productive she is as a telecommuter than working in a cube farm and answers the question "How do they know that you're working when they can't see you?"
Talent Management - Fielding Objections to Telecommuting
Common objections to telecommuting and how to respond to them. Good answers, but I wish citations were given rather than just "Statistics show..." or "Recent surveys have shown..." If you used these arguments, you'd need to do some additional research to back up the claims.
New link: http://talentmgt.com/articles/view/fielding_objections_to_telecommuting
Remote Work Doesn’t Scale … or Does It? – Hacker Noon
The founder of Articulate explains how having a remote workforce makes it easier to scale up as a company grows
Because we’re remote, we’re laser-focused on productivity. We know a team’s working well because they’re producing high-quality work. And we know when things aren’t working well because there are hiccups in productivity or quality.
In fact, I firmly believe that <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Articulate is better at collaboration and communication</em> than many traditional companies because we haven’t had the luxury of assuming it’ll just happen organically. We deliberately architect the way we work to support collaboration and foster clear, direct, open communication.