Telecommuting Era Still Facing Social Barries

Posted: August 11th, 2005 | No Comments »

Work is where you hang your coat Sun leads way in telework — working not just from home but anywhere” talks about “telecommuting”, the next generation of “telework” because nowadays we are not not just working from home but working from anywhere. In a few words, the technological barries for telecommuting now in the verge of being broken, telecommuting is still facing social barries. Managers worry that unsupervised employees might goof off. Workers worry that losing face time might hurt their chances for advancement. However, telecommuting cuts the costs for the employer and improves the productivity of some types of employees. “All of us who participated can attest to the fact that you end up working more because of sitting there without day-to-day interruptions”. Telecommuting is still based on very informal rules, as a lot of telecommuting arrangements are initially done under the table and many companies have no program to manage their guerrilla distributed workers.