Posts Tagged ‘work’
smart working…only for smart people kot
Currently I’m in the midst of changing my timezone from GMT 0 to GMT +8. Its really hard considering the gaps between these 2 timezone. Hopefully I’ll be able to smart working from home after new year.
Doing project with people from different timezone pose many problems and some say, there also implicit benefit. Since the only way time I could initiate direct communication with the UK guys is around 5pm and onwards malaysian time. Prior to that, the only communication medium on my disposal is only a mail. Just imagine U got stuck with problems and u have to wait till the end of day just to get the answer. Not so pragmatic. But this might work if u were lazy on that day and simply needed some reason to justify why U didn’t do ur work.
I learned something useful back in UK. Its called smart working. Since all of the development team disperse all around the world ( 4 in uk, and 1 sesat in Malaysia), smart working I think might be the best answer to work. My PM argument is why u need to come to office if all the other team member is not there? So I’ll be proposing this idea to my PM here so I can work from home. This should help me
- reducing pollution.
- Saving cost on fuel consumption and toll fee ( yess takde laa kaya sami and valu).
- extend the interval between services for my car maintenance.
- save budget on meal. Home cook is the best.
- no more dirty laundry for my office cloth
- spend more time with the people that I love the most.
But this indirectly
- there should be extra cost on electric bill and other utilities bill.
- inconsistent in productivity. Too many distraction back at home.
- higher bandwidth usage. Since I need to use VPN to connect.
Maybe smart working is the new trend/ hype in these coming recession days. Everybody trying to save every single little pence/sen they have.
