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- Subject: Re: Telecommuters, Remote Workers
- Message-ID: <R0uyTB1w164w@mtcons.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: johnnie@mtcons.almanac.bc.ca (John Wilkinson)
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 02:06:38 PST
- References: <19184.2af83b83@levels.unisa.edu.au>
- Organization: MT Construction, Nanaimo, B.C.
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- 9138827a@levels.unisa.edu.au writes:
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- > I would be very interested in, and would greatly appreciate a response
- > from those who are telecommuters, to the following questions. If you
- > are not a telecommuter but know of others who are it would be
- > appreciated if you could pass this on to them:
- >
- >
- > Q1 Does the organisation to which you telecommute provide any
- > library and information services which are accessible to you
- > online? (eg catalogs, reference assistance, databases, literature
- > searches, document delivery services, organisation information
- > such as daily bulletins and administrative gazettes.)
- >
- > If yes:
- >
- > (a) What services are provided?
- > (b) How useful are these services to you?
- >
- > Q2 (a) What is the nature of the organisation to which you
- > telecommute?
- >
- > (b) If you sometimes commute physically to your organisation,
- > how frequently do you do this?
- >
- > Q3 What are the particular information needs that you have as a
- > telecommuter?
- >
- > Q4 What basic information services do you consider should be
- > provided by an organisation for its telecommuters? (see Q5 for
- > additional and desirable services)
- >
- > Q5 What additional information services would you perceive as being
- > highly desirable for an organisation to provide for its
- > telecommuters?
- >
- > Q6 Are there any further comments you wish to make regarding the
- > information needs of telecommuters?
- >
- > Q7 Would you like a summary of the results of this survey E-mailed
- > to you?
- >
- > Respondents can be assured that individuals and organisations will not
- > be identified in any report or summary of this survey.
- >
- Hello Bronwen
-
- I don't quite fall into the category because I'm self employed but thought
- I'd answer anyway. I am a telecommuter in the fact that I get to work from
- home and don't have to report to an office every day. My work is in the
- construction field where I figure how much lumber it takes to build a house
- from a set of blueprints. I do this for several companies as a transparent
- behind the scenes person but am considering an offer by my major client
- to work exclusively for them and that is where the second part of your
- question comes into play. If I do take them up on this one thing I will
- ask of them is to install a terminal here so that I can follow the jobs
- and thereby make my estimating a little tighter. The above mentioned
- Building Supply has a point of sale system with two yards and could supply
- this info quite easily. As an aside I regularly use my Fax/modem to give
- the on-the-road salesman an extra copy of my work ( which he has a habit
- of misplacing ).
- A real life example of telecommuting, but not in the strictest sense.
- Good luck with your studies
-
- ..John Wilkinson
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