When will teleworking take off?

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Why do we insist on going into the office every day? The technology is there for us to work from home for part of the week.

In fact, the way we're starting to go about our business it doesn't matter where we are. In the last decade we've seen the notion of telecommuting moving from being accessible by phone, to having access to the corporate intranet, to the use of collaborative work tools and now, the introduction of on-the-fly video-conferencing.

Today on Twisted Wire we ask what's holding back the adoption of telecommuting. Are we about to see an explosion in its adoption?

You'll hear from:

  • Oscar Trimboli, director of Microsoft Australia's information worker group
  • Hugh Saddington, group manager strategy at Telstra
  • Mike Mansbach, global head of Sales at Citrix
  • HR Shiever, APAC head at Citrix Online
  • Andrew Cox, sales and marketing director at IP Systems
  • Chris Ryan, CEO of Attend Anywhere
  • Bevis England, director of Telework New Zealand
  • Greg Bourne, CEO of the World Wildlife Fund

Add your comments in the Talkback section at the end of this post.

Talkback

tele-absence... that's a good one!!

interesting that it took a competitor to the conference call to come up with a known weak link in the offsite connection that is a conference call.

location, location, location.... that's what its all about.. isn't it??

We will all need tv studio style office spaces to be able to have on camera conversations, the open plan office is not really ideal conditions for video, given the distractions and background movements that can show up.

The systems that you use in an office environment often don't operate as efficiently through firewalls, etc, obviously the faster the connection the better, but there is rarely compareable process speeds between office to home transaction time.

Remote offices are a fact of life today, offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, etc are all linked together usually on conference calls, and I had to giggle when I heard the tele-absence joke, i like it.

There is a so much in non-verbal conversation that goes unrecognised and so much lack of attention when it comes to putting people together on a call that can just waste the day away.

I agree with the call about trust, there is definitely an issue between manager and staff that needs to be over come and admit there are distractions at home, but there are quite a few in the office too. This where YOUR own responsibility to demonstate one's own dedication to task to manage the distractions.

Interesting topic Phil, see how many more decades it takes to really evolve...

Hardy_76Hardy_76 June 8th, 2009
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Management Suspicion

I'm pretty experienced in most areas of IT and yet even in the office I find it difficult to appreciate the effort that goes into so many IT tasks. Most managers aren't any where as IT savvy as I am and so it is difficult to keep a finger on the pulse of progress etc. It usually comes down to looking at employees body language etc and noticing changes from established norms.
When a worker is performing work remotely it creates an even greater conceptual gap. There are certainly standard tasks that are well understood that can be done more effectively remotely however even this risks creating suspicion for those whose onsite presence is necessary.
We will no doubt see growth in telecommuting, but don't hold your breath waiting for workplaces everywhere to transform overnight.

localshoplocalshop June 9th, 2009
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