[lug] Anyone else hate to get rid of old equipment?

[Dan Ferris]

I reply because this is also a pet peeve of mine (even though I now work
from home full time).  At my last company, it boiled down to the VP of
Operations was a control freak and prick of the highest order who
thought that anyone he couldn't see wasn't working even though we all
did project and deadline based work.

Dan

> Oh, and that one brings up my favorite pet peeve: Why have a physical 
> work location for information workers at all? Building it, heating it, 
> cooling it, traveling to and from it, all utilize resources.  Work from 
> home is quite "green", since we're already doing very non-green things 
> to keep the Internet and the connectivity of a network to all our homes 
> in most Metro and even most rural areas, these days.  Why have offices 
> at all?
>
> I could be EASILY convinced to support LAWS that didn't allow 
> information workers to travel to work if they can stay put throughout 
> the workday.  That would take *how many* cars off the road in cities?  
> :-)  Why...? Because it'd save me a lot of money & time!
>
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