{"id":495,"date":"2006-12-11T13:24:29","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T19:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=495"},"modified":"2006-12-11T13:24:49","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T19:24:49","slug":"telecommuting-trend-expands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/telecommuting-trend-expands\/","title":{"rendered":"Telecommuting Trend Expands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.managesmarter.com\/msg\/content_display\/management\/e3ifdfb7965fb59ccbca1ce1f52019767e8\" target=\"_blank\">Telecommuting is the Norm<\/a> is a quick article from Sales &#038; Marketing Management&#8217;s website. I don&#8217;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 telecommuting capability including wireless-connected laptops, VPN connections and PDA cell phones.<\/p>\n<p>If your company does not offer these telecommuting basics, consider this excerpt from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The war for talent, combined with commuting times and costs, and an increasing need for work-life balance are all factors that promote telecommuting,&#8221; says Jim Lanzalotto, vice president of strategy and marketing for Yoh. &#8220;All things being equal, a well-articulated telecommuting policy can make the difference between winning and losing a bid for a high-impact professional, especially when more than twenty-seven million people in the United States work from home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the telecommuting trends:<\/p>\n<p>* 25 percent of managers allow working from home, 13 percent allow working from a satellite office and 44 percent have other arrangements that support telecommuting. <strong>Only 19 percent say they have no telecommuting procedure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most managers say they expect telecommuting to grow over the next two years. <strong>Only 35 percent said it was unlikely that telecommuting would increase.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecommuting is the Norm is a quick article from Sales &#038; Marketing Management&#8217;s website. I don&#8217;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 telecommuting capability including wireless-connected laptops, VPN connections and PDA cell phones. If your company does not offer these telecommuting basics, consider this excerpt from the article: &#8220;The war for talent, combined with commuting times and costs, and an increasing need for work-life balance are all factors that promote telecommuting,&#8221; says Jim Lanzalotto, vice president of strategy and marketing for Yoh.&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/telecommuting-trend-expands\/\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,11,5,24],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-7Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495"}],"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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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