Comments on: Information Worker

By: It Jobs In Houston Texas

It Jobs In Houston Texas — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:13:22 +0000

nice blog about job sceneria and about your experience with information technology sectior.

By: Dani Matielo

Dani Matielo — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:17:43 +0000

Yup, Avi, I do read your blog and finding it very interesting.

Here are the references I mentioned:

Online Facilitation ML
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/onlinefacilitation/

And here is an example of my friend’s work (in Spanish):
El impacto del teletrabajo en las empresas y en el ámbito doméstico y familiar.
http://ve.umh.es/sieg.1/docs/ICongresoInternacional/comunicaciones/sciv03.pdf

By: Avi

Avi — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:50:17 +0000

Dani, first of all, supercool to know you read around

Of course it has drawbacks.

For example, I have a similar job today. But I can’t avoid going to the office almost everyday because currently to keep strong and close relations to some peers and teams is very important for me.

My objective here was just to point that information-centered work may be a reality today. For broader acceptance, telecommunications technologies still must get better, and much more cultural shift is required.

By: Dani Matielo

Dani Matielo — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:10:55 +0000

Hello, Avi, I agree with you that potentialy all these jobs could be done remotedly, but, as you say, we would need a very strong culture change, since working from somewhere else outside the company office demands that people that are at the office are comitted with sharing information and having meetings. The fact that theoretically a job could be done away from the office does not mean, yet, that it can actually be done this way, since there are several factors that are still extremely valued in terms of salary and promotion, for example, which are evaluated according to physical presence.

(All these thoughts come from some discussions I had in the Online Facilitation ML and the work of a friend here in Spain who is researching about telework)

Best,

Dani

By: Avi

Avi — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:13:59 +0000

Leonardo, of course each doctor has its own method.

My last doctor was a generalist that examined me in the first visit. After that I went there again several times to bring exam results and to mostly talk about options. He never examined me again.

I thought much of these contacts could be made over the phone, sparing my time driving to his office, etc.

By: Leonardo Fontenelle

Leonardo Fontenelle — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:52:57 +0000

While most of the clinican consultation can be done by teleconference, most clinical consultations have at least one moment where we (medical doctors) need to touch the patient.

By: Avi

Avi — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:21:39 +0000

OK, so Manaus is still not an option

By: Adenilson Cavalcanti

Adenilson Cavalcanti — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:54:09 +0000

Well… Manaus is not an option if you need internet access. For example, I pay US$150,00 monthly for an internet link of just 200kbps (yes, its right!) and latency around 700ms.

And I should consider myself happy, since I live an area that is covered by internet services (only a small section of the whole city has internet providers).

Best regards

Adenilson