Working from home means working in the office most of the time and working from home occasionally. For example, 1 is in the office four days a week, but occasionally works at home one day. And telecommuting is actually not in the office from the beginning, and there may even be no office at all.
Because of this epidemic, I started working from home at the end of March. Up to now (165438+1mid-October), although the epidemic situation has greatly improved, the government still hopes to work from home and reduce transmission channels. Therefore, a software engineer like me will continue to work from home. The high probability is next March, so he will work from home 1 year.
At first I thought it was telecommuting, but gradually I found out it wasn't. The coupling degree of work is the same as before.
There are more meetings every day and week than before, even more than before. Why? Because I used to work in an office, if my colleagues want to talk to you about something and see that you are not at your desk, they will not call you immediately, but wait until you come back unless there is something urgent. However, if you work from home, your colleagues will assume that you are always in front of the computer, so all kinds of communication will be endless.
Telecommuting assumes that everyone doesn't even work in the same time zone, so online real-time communication will be greatly reduced, everyone's coupling will be reduced, and everyone's independence will be improved. This is similar to the cooperation of open source projects. Everyone works asynchronously together. If you send a request, you don't expect the other party to reply in real time, but it will take at least ten minutes or even days to reply.
To put it more figuratively, working at home is equivalent to working together with real-time synchronous communication tools such as telephone or videophone, and telecommuting is equivalent to working together with asynchronous communication tools such as mail.