March 3, 2007 3 Comments

Workstreaming – Virtual Busy Indicators via RSS

This great article is a must read for all of us virtual office types here. Imagine a traditional office, where the boss sees you stopping by the coffee machine, working at the desk face down, and running to meetings. How does that translate in the virtual world of the Creative Class? The article poses a really useful solution. read it here.

(Found via superhero Stowe Boyd’s post.)

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  • http://www.ldpodcast.com Whitney

    I love the flexibility of web working. I can multi-task my home and work lives. But with web work, we give up the control aspect of work and get more down to the trust level. My boss gives me a deadline, or projected complete date. I do my very best to meet or exceed that expectation, so he is happy, and when he needs someone to get something done, he knows he can count on me to handle it for him. He trusts me to manage my own life, and I do just that.

    In traditional work environments, there’s a lot of “in loco parentis”- fancy latin for saying managers end up more like moms & dads that you have to answer to for everything you do. I don;t try to impress anyone by extra late or extra early emails- that’s just how my web work life works. Get up, work for an hour, get kids to school. Get back to work, break to do something, come back, hack away on the project for a while, etc.

    And the window dressing of face time is stupid and silly. But this happens in an office all the time. In the “real world”, we have to manage expectations by the package, rather than managing expectations by the content. Yet, I’d much rather be evaluated by the quality of the work, than whether I’m doing it at a certain time of day, or wearing jammies while it’s getting done.

    And in the end, shouldn’t work product speak for itself?

  • http://www.ldpodcast.com Whitney

    I love the flexibility of web working. I can multi-task my home and work lives. But with web work, we give up the control aspect of work and get more down to the trust level. My boss gives me a deadline, or projected complete date. I do my very best to meet or exceed that expectation, so he is happy, and when he needs someone to get something done, he knows he can count on me to handle it for him. He trusts me to manage my own life, and I do just that.

    In traditional work environments, there’s a lot of “in loco parentis”- fancy latin for saying managers end up more like moms & dads that you have to answer to for everything you do. I don;t try to impress anyone by extra late or extra early emails- that’s just how my web work life works. Get up, work for an hour, get kids to school. Get back to work, break to do something, come back, hack away on the project for a while, etc.

    And the window dressing of face time is stupid and silly. But this happens in an office all the time. In the “real world”, we have to manage expectations by the package, rather than managing expectations by the content. Yet, I’d much rather be evaluated by the quality of the work, than whether I’m doing it at a certain time of day, or wearing jammies while it’s getting done.

    And in the end, shouldn’t work product speak for itself?

  • http://www.ldpodcast.com Whitney

    I love the flexibility of web working. I can multi-task my home and work lives. But with web work, we give up the control aspect of work and get more down to the trust level. My boss gives me a deadline, or projected complete date. I do my very best to meet or exceed that expectation, so he is happy, and when he needs someone to get something done, he knows he can count on me to handle it for him. He trusts me to manage my own life, and I do just that.

    In traditional work environments, there’s a lot of “in loco parentis”- fancy latin for saying managers end up more like moms & dads that you have to answer to for everything you do. I don;t try to impress anyone by extra late or extra early emails- that’s just how my web work life works. Get up, work for an hour, get kids to school. Get back to work, break to do something, come back, hack away on the project for a while, etc.

    And the window dressing of face time is stupid and silly. But this happens in an office all the time. In the “real world”, we have to manage expectations by the package, rather than managing expectations by the content. Yet, I’d much rather be evaluated by the quality of the work, than whether I’m doing it at a certain time of day, or wearing jammies while it’s getting done.

    And in the end, shouldn’t work product speak for itself?