{"id":1489,"date":"2008-03-28T08:43:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T13:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/a-reason-to-web-commute\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T08:45:04","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T13:45:04","slug":"a-reason-to-web-commute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/a-reason-to-web-commute\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reason To Web Commute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a better anecdotal piece of information to support web commuting &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/Election2008\/Default.aspx?id=73553\">$5.20 per gallon gas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Five dollars and 20 cents for a gallon of gas. The number says a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it may be the most expensive gas in America. But $5.20 doesn&#8217;t begin to explain essence \u2014 the rich, off-beat, some might say, eccentric, essence of Gorda, Calif.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a better anecdotal piece of information to support web commuting &#8211; $5.20 per gallon gas: Five dollars and 20 cents for a gallon of gas. The number says a lot. Yes, it may be the most expensive gas in America. But $5.20 doesn&#8217;t begin to explain essence \u2014 the rich, off-beat, some might say, eccentric, essence of Gorda, Calif.<\/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_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":[5,24],"tags":[392,465],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends","category-worklife-balance","tag-telecommute","tag-web-commute"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-o1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1484,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/web-commute\/","url_meta":{"origin":1489,"position":0},"title":"Web Commute","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"That is a term coined by Citrix and one I suspect we will see with some frequency.\u00a0 If gas goes to $4\/gallon, I suspect these articles will publish daily.\u00a0 ManageSmarter.com offers up an article discussing the preference of today's workers to have technological flexibility in their job.\u00a0 The key here\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Generations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Generations","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/generations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1035,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/more-americans-are-working-from-home\/","url_meta":{"origin":1489,"position":1},"title":"More Americans Are Working From Home","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 27, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Foxnews.com offers a story regarding the booming trend of working from home.\u00a0 I hope no one is surprised by this trend since it has been prevalent for many years now.\u00a0 Obviously, $3 a gallon gas is driving even more people towards this model.\u00a0 Yet, I think the gas prices are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sourcing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sourcing","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/sourcing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":999,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/the-skyrocketing-telecommuting-trend\/","url_meta":{"origin":1489,"position":2},"title":"The Skyrocketing Telecommuting Trend","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"June 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"According to a recent study by World at Work: The number of Americans whose employer allows them to work remotely at least one day per month increased 63 percent, from 7.6 million in 2004 to 12.4 million in 2006. Based on government estimates of 149.3 million workers in the U.S.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Trends&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Trends","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/trends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1598,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/05\/the-gasoline-tipping-point\/","url_meta":{"origin":1489,"position":3},"title":"The Gasoline Tipping Point","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"$4.50 here in the Twin Cities.\u00a0 According to this Pioneer Press story: And if the price hits $4.50 per gallon, more than half of the commuters in the Twin Cities said they'll be looking at changes in their daily commute. The survey found commuters are most aggressive about looking for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring Salespeople&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring Salespeople","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/hiring-salespeople\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1712,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/08\/telecommuter-friendly-companies\/","url_meta":{"origin":1489,"position":4},"title":"Telecommuter-Friendly Companies","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"August 20, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A few months ago I posted on the rising trend of telecommuting.\u00a0 The percent of companies that allow working from home has gone up dramatically over the past few years.\u00a0 From our experience, that trend has been accelerating in just the past few months.\u00a0 More companies are offering salespeople the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring Salespeople&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring Salespeople","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/hiring-salespeople\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1609,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/06\/the-commute-question\/","url_meta":{"origin":1489,"position":5},"title":"The Commute Question","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"We are sales recruiters so we have been fairly immune to this question, but it is even appearing in our world.\u00a0 For salespeople, the question is some variation of \"How often will I be expected to be in the office?\"\u00a0 This question doesn't mean they are planning on playing hooky;\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Compensation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Compensation","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/compensation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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