Come back to work!
A recent Wall Street Journal article - Some Companies Rethink The Telecommuting Trend - caught my attention, discussing the trend among some big corporations to reduce their number of telecommuters.
The biggest reason this caught my attention is that I myself am a telecommuter, having made the switch this last summer after a move to a new house put me over an hour away from Nortel’s campus in Richardson, TX. Luckily for me, Nortel is still fully embracing telecommuting. 8.9% of Nortel employees are home-based, up almost 50% from 2005. It helps that Nortel has an industry-leading unified communications solution that allows Nortel telecommuters to seamlessly make and receive calls from their office number even when at …
