Live here, work 16 hours away: telecommuting
January 27th, 2008 Posted in General
Sheila Hatherley makes it into her Connecticut office two or three times a year tops.
The rest of the time, she’s at a computer in Sault Ste. Marie, doing her job as clinical site manager for a major U.S. pharmaceutical company, over the Internet.
“People give me a call and they don’t even know that I’ve left head office,” said Hatherley.
From her computer in the Sault, Hatherley oversees clinical trials at clinics and hospitals across the U.S. She never goes to any of the sites she manages, but with her connection to the company network and the contacts she maintains via instant messaging software, “for the most part it is identical,” to being in the office.
If you are a Northern Ontario teleworker, drop me an email.