Benefits of informal telework
When you just “let it happen” informally, problems can be fixed informally, or it can simply be stopped
When a programme is evaluated, planned, promoted, negotiated, committed, invested:
- there is a tendency to “stick to the plan” too long
- there is organisational and personal investment and commitment - de-commitment becomes painful
- formal agreements are costly and slow to amend or untangle
- it is more difficult to respond to the unforeseen (which may well be an external change)
Consider the problems of “managed economies”