Now that the coronavirus is all over the news, I’m hearing a lot about companies and employees setting up their telecommuting strategies. Here’s some unsolicited advice from a work-at-home veteran.
People used to talk about work-life balance, as if they were two separate things. Now they talk about work-life integration, but what they mean is finding ways to infiltrate every hour of every day with this work that is not really your life. I choose to do things differently.
“I just want to see the raw data! No interpretation, no massaging the numbers, just the raw data straight out of the instrument!”
I sympathized with my non-scientist friend. She felt frustrated after reading a series of news items that began with a promising discovery, followed by a series of caveats, followed by more news stories reporting that no one knew for sure what was going on, and several more years of research would be required to clarify the findings from the initial report.
Originally published on LinkedIn, December 9, 2014 READ FULL ARTICLE
