Dirty work surfaces and pant sizes aside;
Mr. Mahoney's stated reasoning regarding team work and collaboration do not stand up to scrutiny, and will stand up even less so with Honeywell's drive to be a software company.
I currently work in north Phoenix and have been one of the telecommuters. I do this for a number of reasons, primary among them is, the people I work most directly with are overseas. I actually do not, for primary job related functions, interface with anyone at my actual physical job location. The person in my work group who is also in the same state, is 15 miles away. My management isn't even local.
The only thing this change will do, is compel me to spend somewhere around 80 minutes of my day, each day, burning fossil fuels to commute to a cubicle I don't really need, to be around people I don't actually work with.
This change raises fuel costs to employees, raises accident risk rates by increasing driving time exposure, increases national fuel usage and local pollution rates, increases wear and tear on roads, and facilities while not actually adding any real benefit to the company.
It will, logically, also increase the occurrence of sick days. I haven't taken a single sick day since working remotely because, no matter how sick I was, I could at least either bring my laptop to my sick bed with me, or get out of bed, shuffle down the hall and take care of important items as needed, take meetings, and deal whatever bug I had without risk of passing it along to the rest of the work group, or being too medicated to drive effectively.
Instead of looking at unused work spaces as an opportunity to do something different with the work spaces, by either expanding facilities or using them for new growth like an innovative, creative, developing company does the company went backwards into an inflexible, brown shoe'ed, world view that fails to take into account how a large chunk of the company actually works.
Again.
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