Mobility For Those Who Can Handle It

by Jordan Jenkins / Oct 19

My company is entirely a mobile force. We have no office, we have no schedules, and everything we need (computers, etc) is home owned by our employees. Which is fine for us because we don’t hire anyone besides self-motivated guys and gals who get things done when we need them done. But our company also doesn’t need people on-hand at a specific site, as opposed to like say a data center. We can all work in the cloud, uploading to servers or e-mailing. Meetings are held on Skype or in a chat room.

Being all mobile also saves us a LOT of overhead in terms of renting/owning an office, getting employees computers, etc.

Now, I’ve met a lot of people who we might, at best, term “slackers.” For them, if they could work whenever they wanted to, they would probably never work. For these kinds of people, it’s easier and better for them to be in a closely supervised space, where they can focus themselves on work, especially because there is the boss a few cubicles over. They don’t need to be at home, in their underwear, distracted by WoW or YouTube when they should be finishing that report. These kinds of people tell us that the office is not going to disappear anytime soon. I see it sticking around. Maybe when my company grows big enough, we’ll need to get an office ourselves. For the slackers.

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