{"id":50,"date":"2008-01-10T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T18:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/is-there-any-downside-to-telecommuting\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T11:43:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T18:43:44","slug":"is-there-any-downside-to-telecommuting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/10\/is-there-any-downside-to-telecommuting\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there ANY downside to telecommuting?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston.com<\/a> published an study done by Pennsylvania State University which – apparently – found only benefits to both employers and employees to telecommuting.<\/p>\n

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Although some companies and workers feared telecommuting could hamper career prospects or lead to a breakdown in relationships with managers and co-workers, the researchers found no evidence to support it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Telecommuting by and large does not have any negative relational outcomes as has been commonly believed,” said Gajendran.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There was also no evidence that telecommuting stymied career development.<\/span><\/p>\n

Telecommuting also has added benefits, according to the researchers, because it cuts commuting costs and relieves congestion on inner city transport systems, as well as traffic on roads.<\/span><\/p>\n

“If you could save a long commute, say two days a week or maybe even one, you will see substantial costs saving as well as substantial reductions in terms of pollution,” Gajendran explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Hard to argue with a list of benefits like that. I think the interesting (and important bit) is that they found NO “negative relational outcomes”. In other words – you can telecommute and maintain effective and productive working relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boston.com published an study done by Pennsylvania State University which – apparently – found only benefits to both employers and employees to telecommuting. Although some companies and workers feared telecommuting could hamper career prospects or lead to a breakdown in relationships with managers and co-workers, the researchers found no evidence to support it. “Telecommuting by… Continue reading Is there ANY downside to telecommuting?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}