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Telecommuting is a system in which employees or contractors connect to work via a computer from home or another remote location, thus reducing that person’s need to commute to work - hence the term telecommuting. Companies tend to offer telecommuting on a part-time basis, with employees working from home one or two days a week.

Telecommuting is attractive for a variety of reasons:

You can be more productive, as working from home means you can concentrate better on your job without answering phone calls and dealing with other distractions in your workplace.

You feel trusted by your bosses to get on with it and it gives you the flexibility to look after anyone at home who needs a bit of help during the day - children or elderly parents, for example. As long as your work gets done - on time - you have more control.

Bosses can cut their overheads because they don’t have to cater for the needs of all their employees five days a week. If some staff telecommute several days a week, the bosses can reduce the number of desks, the size of the office, the amount of stationery, and the amount of parking.

Telecommuting gives a greater range of people job opportunities. If you are the principal carer for children or other relatives or can’t physically travel to work, telecommuting may allow you to become part of the workforce again.

If there’s no telecommuting in your office, it may be that the bosses haven’t thought of it as an option. If you’d like to give it a try come up with a plan as to how it would work and use the arguments in the preceding list to help win them over.

Some jobs and some people are simply not suited to telecommuting. Many jobs require face-to-face contact and some people don’t have the discipline and personality to be as productive as they would be in the office.

Reducing transport trips

Telecommuting not only has benefits for the employer and employee but also for the community and the environment. The main selling point from an environmental point of view is that it cuts down the number of home-to-work trips during weekday rush hours. If these trips are normally by car, traffic congestion and air pollution are reduced as well as fuel consumption.

Telecommuting used along with workplace travel plans that encourage use of public transport, walking, and cycling, and car-sharing schemes plus workplace parking restrictions have real potential for getting employees to leave their cars in the garage.

Employers can lend employees cycles and cycling safety equipment and there’s no tax or National Insurance to be paid on those perks.

Telecommuting in action

Not everyone can telecommute. Many people have to be on site so as they can be involved in meetings, have access to the right equipment, or serve the public. Even if you have a job suited to telecommuting, you may not have the right home environment. The most suitable candidates for teleworking are employees who produce discreet and generally self-contained pieces of work - project work and policy analysis, research, planning, and writing for instance. Telecommuters need to be able to work without supervision, don’t need social interaction with workmates, are self-motivated, and have a trusting relationship with their manager.

If you have the job, personality, and discipline for telecommuting you also need:

• The right computer equipment: It makes it much easier if you have a computer that enables you to access everything at work as if you were there.
• A suitable home office environment: You need a set-up that enables you to separate your home and work life - a separate room with a desk, an office-style chair, good lighting, no outside distractions, and room for office equipment like a printer.
• A telecommuting agreement: You and your boss need to outline your working time, whether you need to log on and off the network at a certain time, at what times you communicate with the office, and whether you can claim any expenses (computer and printing costs, paper, coffee, and so on).

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