http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2006/12/first-annual-pajama-day-at-google/ Technology, Blogging, New Media and Web 2.0 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:58:40 +0530 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2006/12/first-annual-pajama-day-at-google/comment-page-1/#comment-730107 10 Ways to turn off a Web Freelancer | Kirk Sigmon Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:56:50 +0000 http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2006/12/first-annual-pajama-day-at-google/#comment-730107 [...] Most of us geeky web designers work from home on expensive computers engineered in such a way to allow us to work quickly- with repositories of code, private servers for testing, and usually a cache of music and movies to keep us entertained through long work nights. Asking us to come in to your offices and work on your 5 year old Dell computer with Microsoft Frontpage makes us work slower, more inefficiently, and ends up costing you more money overall. While many companies want this to ensure the person does the work and consult with them (rather ironic, considering how easy it would be to simply ask for screen shots or a live build or simply give them a call), this just kills any reasonable work. Let us work in our pajamas, you’d be amazed how much better the end product ends up being. [...] [...] Most of us geeky web designers work from home on expensive computers engineered in such a way to allow us to work quickly- with repositories of code, private servers for testing, and usually a cache of music and movies to keep us entertained through long work nights. Asking us to come in to your offices and work on your 5 year old Dell computer with Microsoft Frontpage makes us work slower, more inefficiently, and ends up costing you more money overall. While many companies want this to ensure the person does the work and consult with them (rather ironic, considering how easy it would be to simply ask for screen shots or a live build or simply give them a call), this just kills any reasonable work. Let us work in our pajamas, you’d be amazed how much better the end product ends up being. [...]

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