Re: A Guide to Hiring Programmers - The High Cost of Low Quality

You should seriously consider allowing your expert developers to telecommute full-time.

i even wonder why most companies won't even allow part-time telecommuting. often there's the situation that a developer has to work more or less alone on a problem for a whole day. the company has a vpn-access. the developer has a fast internet connection at home. so where's the problem?

i can only suspect that employers don't trust their employees and think that they will laze around the most time when working at home.

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Re^2: A Guide to Hiring Programmers - The High Cost of Low Quality by clinton (Priest) on Aug 08, 2007 at 08:33 UTC
I agree completely. I now work entirely remotely - I have worked for some clients for years before finally meeting them. It makes it more difficult to get work, as most clients want to have face to face meetings (which usually means interrupting real work several times a day). But once they get over that, they realise that telecommuting is a very efficient comfortable way to work.	[reply]