[Novalug] Hiring - woes

[luigi12081 at cox.net]

---- Keith Casey <mailinglists at caseysoftware.com> wrote: 
> On 2/21/07, Dan Arico <dan_arico at aricosystems.com> wrote:
> > I can understand why some IT jobs have to be tied to a particular
> > location, but why should that be true for all or even most of them? I'm
> 
> I've noticed that more and more companies are starting to acknowledge
> and work towards this sort of flexibility, but it seems to be almost
> exclusively the small companies just getting off the ground.
> 

My father loves to quote his anthropology professor:  "What is the definition of 'culture'?  *the way we do things 'round here*."  

Smaller, younger  companies aren't burdened by the dead hand of a corporate culture yet.  They do things in ways that work for them, not necessarily because that's the way their predecessors did them.

I work for attorneys that continue to practice in substantially the same way that they did back when they first entered the profession in the Nixon administration.  Their methods persist because *they* persist.  

Then again:  those old farts do pay decent wages.

-Luigi