Experiment

[tcepsa]

Someday, if I ever have my own company, I want the policy to be something along the lines of "You are expected to be in the office X hours every day. Or you can telecommute for some or all of that time, provided that you are in e-mail and phone contact for those X hours in case something comes up. You are expected to complete your work on time, and with a high degree of quality. Beyond that, what you do while you are here is up to you. I will not give you a hard time if I catch you using AIM, or sending personal e-mails, or blogging. You can have Everquest running in the background, or even the foreground. You can get together with your officemates and have a Quake match for a few hours. As long as the project stays on schedule, I fully support such activities. If the project begins to fall behind schedule, I don't expect to see you doing those things again until it is caught up. If you do that sort of thing when you have something on your plate that is overdue, then your attention will gently be called to that fact. If, after being reminded that you have something overdue, you do not focus on seeing that it gets completed, more extreme measures will be taken. If you buckle down and get it done, though, then you're free to go back to whatever you were doing."

But maybe that's just me, and in reality it would be managerial suicide ^_^