19th September 2012, 01:47 PM
I will own up to understanding more than 50% of Him Joe's last mail....got a little lost in Oceania, (but not for the first time......)
It did get me thinking though......I saw earlier today that there was an advert on BAJR for staff wanted for a variety of roles based in the south of England. Application for these posts had to be made online (fair enough) and the jobs are physically based from office locations in Devon and Wiltshire. That is understandable for the field jobs and even the project officer positions, but haven't we reached the situation where the internet and digital media makes many post-excavation/researcher posts possible from 'virtual' offices i.e home, outer space, Norwegian fjords? I recognise that this probably happens a lot in companies anyway by way of formal or informal arrangement, but does anyone know of any examples where 'virtually-based' archaeology jobs have been advertised. Isn't this a way forward in trying to reduce some of the fixed costs in archaeology, reduce the strain of travelling or moving for short term contracts and increase the efficency of the 'virtual' worker (I believe there may even be tax and NI advantages in using non-domiciled contract staff in this manner)...... or does the 'clock-in, clock-out' mentality still largely prevail.....
PS This in no way is intended as a criticism of the advertiser (love you all to death), I am just using their advert to illustrate my point....hope you are flooded with applications from super applicants!!
It did get me thinking though......I saw earlier today that there was an advert on BAJR for staff wanted for a variety of roles based in the south of England. Application for these posts had to be made online (fair enough) and the jobs are physically based from office locations in Devon and Wiltshire. That is understandable for the field jobs and even the project officer positions, but haven't we reached the situation where the internet and digital media makes many post-excavation/researcher posts possible from 'virtual' offices i.e home, outer space, Norwegian fjords? I recognise that this probably happens a lot in companies anyway by way of formal or informal arrangement, but does anyone know of any examples where 'virtually-based' archaeology jobs have been advertised. Isn't this a way forward in trying to reduce some of the fixed costs in archaeology, reduce the strain of travelling or moving for short term contracts and increase the efficency of the 'virtual' worker (I believe there may even be tax and NI advantages in using non-domiciled contract staff in this manner)...... or does the 'clock-in, clock-out' mentality still largely prevail.....
PS This in no way is intended as a criticism of the advertiser (love you all to death), I am just using their advert to illustrate my point....hope you are flooded with applications from super applicants!!
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