Currently my employer pay for my scheduled work - also the part that I choose to do at home. Unfortunately my employer does not sponsor my home PC nor the software necessary to do the work - specifically edit Office files at home. Still I sometimes work on them at home - but I do not feel obligated to do so - especially since the impediments are quite significant.
Luckily we use Microsoft software at the Office and my home PCs free SUN software supports editing just about any file I bring home. I am not lucky enough to have an employer that will pay for a personal laptop for me nor pay for software for my private PC.
Well, to bring home an Office file for editing seems easy, but actually it is not. Whether I choose to use email-attachments or my private USB-Memory-pen is insignificant. Neither allows for any impulsive editing, since both mediums require significant planning.
Before leaving work - each day - I need to evaluate which files I can work on. Then I need to copy those files - to be able to work on them if my private time has an open space and I feel motivated to do so.
Time and time again, I faithfully take a copy of some files with me. At home the plans changes, and I never get around to edit the copied files. They mostly end up as wasted copies.
Sometimes the private time-plan changes and brings an openings where I feel motivated for editing a file. Too often; requiring a file that I did not bring home. Maybe I have it somewhere - in an older baseline. Usually it is not the the latest edition, or I can not be sure it is the latest edition.
The above mentioned limitations, the waste and the subsequent frustrations demotivates my pursuit of integrated work and private time. I sure hope this is aligned with my employers strategy.
Solving a possible integrated file editing strategy misalignment has many options: Groove, Collanos, VPN file share, SharePoint or KnowledgeTree just to name a few.
Using larger free USB-Memory-pens is not an option for the long run, because it will always require a significant manual labor - to take the pen with you home every day.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Thanks for mentioning this simple use scenario for tools like Collanos.
Free, secure sharing of documents between office and home PCs, even cross-platform between Linux, Mac and Windows is done like that automatically in the background.
I also appreciate OpenOffice as common denominator for content from different office systems is very helpful - not only at home.
Hi Lars and followers,
We, Collanos, just came out with a new version this week, Collanos Workplace 1.1, with major enhancements and features.
This includes a new Conflict Bin that allows you to restore overwritten file versions and our CUD, Central User Directory, which further enhances our goal of creating ONE global Collanos community where users can easily find each other and invite them to share workspaces/projects (even offline!).
If you have a chance, please give it a try and send us your feedback.
Release Notes (highly recommended) are available on our user forum:
http://community.collanos.com/index.php/topic,811.0.html
Cheers,
Gil - Collanos
Post a Comment