[thelist] Telecommuting or Remote Web Development?
April
april at farstrider.org
Fri Mar 3 16:05:14 CST 2006
Sorry, around here is Bay Area, California. Oakland, San Francisco, San
Jose and all the stuff in between.
I should clarify that by "common" I meant when you see it you aren't
surprised... not it's the ad you see most often.
Peter Brunone (EasyListBox.com) wrote:
> Sounds like what I've seen as well.
>
> By the way, what's "around here"? I wouldn't mind finding more ads like that. :)
>
> From: April april at farstrider.org
>
> Around here, a common job ad for a contractor goes "must be in office
> for initial meeting and 1 to 2 days per week". They're fine with some
> or all of the work being from home, but want to meet in person initially.
>
> Very few advertise a salaried position as full telecommute for web
> design. Working from home 2 or 3 days a week is a common perk, though.
> There's a few for more menial tasks like data entry, that also have
> really easily measurable deliverables for each day (20 articles a day,
> 500 forms a day, etc.). I do know a number of people (web designers and
> non) who telecommute either part or full time, but it's usually after
> working somewhere for a while in office, then something coming up that
> makes telecommute more convenient for one or the other party... and
> everyone agreeing to the idea.
>
> Bruso, John wrote:
>> I'm curious to know if anyone has had any experience or seen any
>> movement in the area of hiring workers who work remotely, especially for
>> web design/development of their web sites or portals.
>>
>> Yeah.. you caught me on a Friday afternoon daydream :P
>>
>> Wouldn't it be nice? :)
>>
>> John
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