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Telecommuting, telework, or Working From Home (WFH) is a work arrangement in which employees enjoy flexibility in working location and hours (within limits). In other words, the daily commute to a central place of work is replaced by telecommunication links. The motto is that 'work is something you do, not something you travel to'. A successful telecommuting programme requires a management style which is based on results and not on close scrutiny of individual employees. This is referred to as 'managing by objective' as opposed to 'managing by observation'. The term 'telecommuting' was coined by Jack Nilles and was first used in the United States. Look up work in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Commuting is the process of travelling between a place of residence and a place of work. ...
BlackBerry 7100t Telecommunication refers to communication over long distances. ...
Management (from Old French ménagement the art of conducting, directing, from Latin manu agere to lead by the hand) characterises the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). ...
Management by Objectives (MBO) is a process of agreeing upon objectives within an organization so that management and employees buy in to the objectives and understand what they are. ...
History The first formal tests of telecommuting were held in 1973 and 1974 with the telecommuters working at a satellite office of an insurance company, using dumb terminals connected to a downtown mainframe. In the 1980s, employees began to work (part-time) from so-called 'home offices' with a desktop PC supplied by their company. Today, the telecommuting staff (telecommuters) usually carries laptop PCs around which they can use both at the office and at home (and almost anywhere else). The telecommuting staff are kept together by the company network and other telecommunication channels. A dumb terminal in computing consists of a computer screen and keyboard, but practically no processing ability. ...
A desktop is the horizontal surface of a desk. ...
The tower of a personal computer. ...
Telecommuters spend at least part of their workday at home, using computers or other telecommunications equipment. ...
Laptop with touchpad. ...
Telecommuting is seen as a solution to traffic congestion (due to single-car commuting) and the resulting urban air pollution and petroleum use. Initial investments in the network infrastructure and hardware are balanced by an increased productivity and overall greater well-being of telecommuting staff (more quality family time, less travel-related stress), which makes the arrangement attractive to companies, especially those who face large office overhead and other costs related to the need for a big central office (such as the need for extensive parking facilities).
Outcomes Telecommuting options increase the employability of marginalised groups, such as mothers with small children, the handicapped and people living in remote areas. The set up also offers possibilities for increased service and internationalisation (telecommuters in different time zones can ensure that a company is virtually open for business around the clock). Telework has also enabled offshore outsourcing. Offshore outsourcing is the practice of hiring an external organization to perform some or all business functions in a country other than the one where the product or service will be sold or consumed. ...
See also E-Work is a term extensively used in Europe, an amplification the original 1980s and 90s concepts of Telework or Telecommuting: working at a distance using information and communications technology, The concept of ework extends the purely physical aspects of the old European Telework and US Telecommuting concepts to include...
Commuting is the process of travelling between a place of residence and a place of work. ...
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