02-08-2011, 12:56 PM
Steve85 Wrote:Evan Wrote:the WFH thing is badass but really hard to find that situation
A little OT...I'm curious, in an industry where the vast majority of work seems to be done on a laptop/PC and stored/deployed via a server on a network, what is the biggest obstacle you guys encounter? Managers that won't allow it? Collaboration logistics? Security? there's a million things I left out in the first sentence?
I wonder if we'll ever figure out the stupidity of all living in a big circle around a central hub we all drive into at the same time using five roads that were too small 20 years ago to sit down and log into a server for 8 hours.
I work on classified and closed govt networks so wfh is rarely an option. Sometimes we can write code on the low side with dummy data then push it up when its time to deploy, but thats really at best a 2 or 3 day a week wfh.
and on top of that, clients generally like to see your face and see that youre working when you bill them.
To build good software efficiently and productively, you really do need face to face collaboration and easy open communication.