At my company, we only approve remote employees who are proven to be dependable and self-directed. usually senior hires who are willing to take paycut because they want to live where their spouse can work or care for family/kids.
Not just engineers. sales and ops folks who are close to clients/vendor offices are also prime for remote work.
Different google than the one i worked in, it took managers many quarters or even years to make big decisions. they needed tons of data and trends - by nature they are reactive to a fault. yet they run around talking about quick decisions making and being agile.. strange world it was.
I like it. i rarely read yelp reviews. i prefer the aggregate score(stars). i would prefer apple made their own system which accounted for 'device+number+ itunes id per vote' so i know there is some mitigation against fraud reviews and stars because it will map to a person.
i would absolutely love to use my glass at my desk when working. would do wonders to clear away all the apps i'm running for notifications and constantly checking my phone to see if i got a text or missed call from a client while i was in a meeting or drafting an email.. the major prob is the product is heavily focused on google services. if they came out swinging with a mac notifications app and ios app - i would use it all day. but they didnt, it sits in my drawer as something i use for show and tell.
I wonder how the police measure their 'shifts', maybe a rule change to make it on-by-default and timed breaks with auto switch on after 20 min of 'off time' for bathroom breaks etc, during this time the officer should be considered 'not on duty' hence cannot respond to incidents.
they are required to document things, why not step up to technology and use everything else available? i'm sure there was similar complaints when notebooks and reports became a requirement... hopefully momentum switches.
