Comments on: Being grounded in the Age of Real-Time Teleportation http://conversations.nokia.com/2008/06/24/being-grounded-in-the-age-of-real-time-teleportation/ Stories from around the Nokia neighbourhood Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:42:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Matt http://conversations.nokia.com/2008/06/24/being-grounded-in-the-age-of-real-time-teleportation/comment-page-1/#comment-863 Matt Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:05:06 +0000 http://conversations.nokia.com/?p=505#comment-863 Glad to hear you're finding Dopplr useful in this regard - it's one of the reasons we created it, I think very much as a reaction to the amount of travel we were doing at the time. Glad to hear you’re finding Dopplr useful in this regard – it’s one of the reasons we created it, I think very much as a reaction to the amount of travel we were doing at the time.

]]> By: PhoneBoy http://conversations.nokia.com/2008/06/24/being-grounded-in-the-age-of-real-time-teleportation/comment-page-1/#comment-864 PhoneBoy Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:01:39 +0000 http://conversations.nokia.com/?p=505#comment-864 Having worked at home the entire time I've been at Nokia, the need to travel for me is a bit different. I've been having to travel a bit more lately to help my team, which is located at two different sites. However, I save some carbon--and some serious dough--by not driving to work every day. That being said, we've tried to eliminate a lot of other potential travel opportunities because the needs could be met other ways, but as you say, it's not always possible. I get kind of frustrated that the conferencing systems don't lend themselves to out-of-office folks like myself. I would like to see more use of video conferencing--outside the Halo facility--as it does help to reduce or eliminate the need to travel in even more cases. Having worked at home the entire time I’ve been at Nokia, the need to travel for me is a bit different. I’ve been having to travel a bit more lately to help my team, which is located at two different sites. However, I save some carbon–and some serious dough–by not driving to work every day.

That being said, we’ve tried to eliminate a lot of other potential travel opportunities because the needs could be met other ways, but as you say, it’s not always possible.

I get kind of frustrated that the conferencing systems don’t lend themselves to out-of-office folks like myself. I would like to see more use of video conferencing–outside the Halo facility–as it does help to reduce or eliminate the need to travel in even more cases.

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