Telecommuters Survival Guide
Challenges in Telecommuting: How to work from your home office - without losing your partner, your sanity or your job
If you’re a pessimist, there’s plenty to worry about right now: fallout from the US financial crisis is affecting world markets, oil prices are rising, and climate change concerns us more each day.
In metropolitan areas in cities the world over, skyrocketing office rentals and overcrowded transport routes leave many commuters questioning the sanity of spending two hours or more each day in traffic, only to sit in an office where their main communication with the outside world is by phone and email.
Telecommuting is one work strategy promising to address all these issues with a shift in the world-view of businesses, but though it requires a relatively simple change, it seems a much-neglected and feared work option.
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A Term Coined by a Rocket Scientist
It’s over thirty-five years since former US rocket scientist Jack Nilles coined the term “telecommuting” to describe the process where an employee works remotely, using telecommunication links (phone, email and web) to replace a physical commute to a central workplace. Continue reading »
