{"id":1451,"date":"2008-03-03T16:08:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T22:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/the-end-of-telecommuting\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T16:05:50","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T22:05:50","slug":"the-end-of-telecommuting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/the-end-of-telecommuting\/","title":{"rendered":"The End Of Telecommuting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the telecommuting trend will end before it truly gets established?\u00a0 I doubt it, but <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120416669485798807.html?mod=\">this Wall Street Journal article<\/a> discusses some bellwether technology companies that are calling back a portion of their telecommuters.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few big promoters of home-based and mobile-office work arrangements, including AT&amp;T, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and parts of the federal government, have called some home-based workers back to the office, causing some to quit. The callbacks are small and don&#8217;t reflect a full retrenchment, but the factors at work &#8212; a push to consolidate operations, and the notion that teamwork improves when people work face-to-face &#8212; suggest other employers might follow suit as recession clouds loom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do not track the correlation between a recession and telecommuters, but the anecdotal evidence is still interesting.\u00a0 I suspect there will be some ongoing adjustments when it comes to managing a team with some in-house employees and some telecommuters (especially full-time, remote employees).<\/p>\n<p>Despite these companies recalling (is that the right verb?) some home-based workers, others are expanding:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All these employers insist they still fully support telecommuting. And U.S. corporate employees working full time from home are still rising, gaining 30% since 2005 to 2.44 million in 2007, says Ray Boggs, a research vice president with IDC, a Framingham, Mass., market-research concern. Nortel, JetBlue and others employers are expanding work-at-home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the telecommuting trend will end before it truly gets established?\u00a0 I doubt it, but this Wall Street Journal article discusses some bellwether technology companies that are calling back a portion of their telecommuters. A few big promoters of home-based and mobile-office work arrangements, including AT&amp;T, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and parts of the federal government, have called some home-based workers back to the office, causing some to quit. The callbacks are small and don&#8217;t reflect a full retrenchment, but the factors at work &#8212; a push to consolidate operations, and the notion that teamwork improves when people work face-to-face &#8212; suggest other employers might follow suit as recession clouds loom. I&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/the-end-of-telecommuting\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[392,391,333],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-management","category-trends","tag-telecommute","tag-telecommuter","tag-telecommuting-trend"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-np","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1174,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/telecommuting-retention\/","url_meta":{"origin":1451,"position":0},"title":"Telecommuting = Retention","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"September 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This isn't shocking news, but telecommuters are more satisfied with their work when compared to the traditional office worker.\u00a0 CareerJournal.com's Working From Home Fosters Job Satisfaction does provide some detail to this difference that I found noteworthy.\u00a0 First the background stats: Seventy-three percent of the remote and home-based workers surveyed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Retention&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Retention","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/retention\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1429,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/02\/fast-facts-about-telecommuting\/","url_meta":{"origin":1451,"position":1},"title":"Fast Facts About Telecommuting","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Seems like our small-sized companies are catching on to the telecommuting option this year which is a bit of a change.\u00a0 I think a good post would be one that lays out a salesperson's tools of the trade for today. 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This is fascinating: Mesa del Sol, designed by New Urbanism guru Peter Calthorpe,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sales Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sales Management","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/sales-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1689,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/08\/an-electronic-leash\/","url_meta":{"origin":1451,"position":3},"title":"An Electronic Leash","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"August 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"You just knew this was going to happen - companies are using technology to monitor remote employees.\u00a0 The Wall Street Journal provides this article that illustrates what approaches are used by employers: They're taking photos of workers' computer screens at random, counting keystrokes and mouse clicks and snapping photos of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sales Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sales Management","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/sales-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":495,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/telecommuting-trend-expands\/","url_meta":{"origin":1451,"position":4},"title":"Telecommuting Trend Expands","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 11, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Telecommuting is the Norm is a quick article from Sales & Marketing Management's website. I don't think this trend is surprising to most people. We have seen a tremendous shift towards this approach in outside sales positions over the past 2 years especially. Most candidates now expect some form of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sales Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sales Management","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/sales-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":227,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/telecommuting-trend\/","url_meta":{"origin":1451,"position":5},"title":"Telecommuting Trend","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"August 11, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"We have discussed telecommuting on many occassions and this morning's JustSell.com email referenced this survey. 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