Working from home
There are multiple snowing days in seattle area in Jan/Feb. Because of my bad driving skill and poor little old car, I would prefer to work from home when road condition are bad.
However, can we as effective working from home as working in office? I guess it depends, it really depends on how many meeting we need to attend per day. If I am writing code, I am more productive working from home instead of working in office since I can concentrate on my program and less commute time. However, if I need to attend meeting or discuss about complicate design issue, it is otherwise.
Microsoft have multiple products around this area trying to improve the situation like Office communicator or live meeting. For office communicator, I found it pretty amazing. Even I am not an IM person, if I want immidiately feedback from the other people, I could ping them right away, however, it is limited to simple program, when there is complicate program need to discuss, I still want to discuss in person. Why? I guess body language make up 80% of our communication.
Not sure whether the computer industry will put more innoviation in this area? Will it after 100 years, every people can work from home? What will the security model look like on those area? It will be fun to see.
