On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:05:36 +0000, tony sayer
wrote:

However - just try getting almost any Engineering employer to agree to
that. Despite the fact that it would cost them nothing at all. Employers
are frequently not flexible, not because of any difficulty, but because
management like to be able to look at who is in the office and do they
*look* busy and so be obviously *managing* their employees.

SteveW

They'll learn, given time. They'll just have to;!..

I know if a large local Taxi firm where when they have "overloads" like
Friday and Sat nights they can bring online home based workers who VPN
into their system for DATA and the "office" phone.

Works very well main reason is that the workers find it very attractive
working from home, they just don't have to go out to the office for a
few hours;!..

It works because it is self-monitoring. Some jobs are like that. For
the majority of jobs however, the temptation to skive off work when
there is nobody around to see what you are doing will prove too great
for the majority of people, no matter how well-intentioned they set
out.

--
Cynic