I have been involved into an interesting conversation on LinkedIn about working from home and if the Cloud could help going into that direction. I was surprised by the number of people interested into this subject.

Some months ago in February, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced a ban on working from home. Now, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman announced that she wants everyone to work at the office. She justified it saying that “During this critical turnaround period, HP needs all hands on deck.”

Which I think is funny because this supposes implicitly that you’re ‘hands off’ when at home.  Continue reading →

When I came to Spain 5 years ago, I searched for a meeting place for French expatriates, but I did not find much. We frenchies are pretty “stay at home” – in any case I am rather homebody – and yes I know, this is quite inconsistent with the fact of going to live in another country. But it is certain that the French expatriates are not the kings of the foreign scene in Madrid.
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