{"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. 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