Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Blog Action day.. & Herzberg!

I need to post something here as today is the big Blog Action day! I didn't know until I read it on the RSS feed of SlashDot. I was as clueless as you are now on how such "day" or event would be useful, I have to admit I got a little interested to know what it meant. and I'm a little impressed, not much, but enough to write this post.
read the http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2007/10/15/blog-action-day-individual-action-is-not-enough

I'm ALL for working from home, I've done it alot.. when I was working in US, and even here in Kuwait .. with all the new high tech stuff, working from home is amazing, most importantly , less traffic, comfy and I believe you can do more working from home. and in my opinion, people who are working hard at the office, will work hard at home.. people who are just reading newspapers and blogs from the office will do the same, and people who are just acting busy, will spare us some traffic when you keep them at home.
However, this needs a total change of mentality in here, everybody believes in Theory X , but we may need to change both the workers and management attitudes to shift towards Theory Y!
another interesting theory would be nice to implement too.. Herzberg's Motivation-Hygiene Theory
His theory can be extended in many ways, and he also has an article that expands on this theory, although first written in 1968, it's still valid since "people are still people"! HBR published a reprint which was noted as "most selling" , get it on HBR website
I believe if workers have the right motivation, they are willing to work from anywhere.. and being at home, you may save your self the effort of providing the Hygiene factors at the office!
People who have crappy houses and consider the office more "hygienic", will still come to office. (By crappy houses, I mean they are inappropriate place to perform his job, nothing else)