Are Empty Offices Unimpressive to Customers?

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One anti-telecommuting argument often used by management is that having too many telecommuters leaves the office feeling like a ghost town.  The downside of this, they say, is that customers visiting the site will think that the company is either understaffed or inefficient.
This is similar to a phenomenon I experienced in [...]

Setting Work Hours

Many new telecommuters expect to work less, since their time will be spent more productively.  While that certainly can be true, if you aren’t careful, you can also end up working a whole lot more.  The reason is that although telecommuting is generally described as working from home, an equally accurate description would be living [...]

Types of Telecommuting Jobs

There are many different types of jobs that fit the generic definition of telecommuting.  In the strictest sense, simply working from home doesn’t make you a telecommuter since your not “commuting.”  Even still, some people who work from home can relate to many of the same issues as telecommuters.  As such, I like to count [...]