What is Telecommuting

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Working from home, using technology as the vehicle for productivity and participation in work Learn more in: Computer Mediated Collaboration

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A form of remote work in which organizational employees work from other physical locations. Telecommuting offers a degree of flexibility in where work is completed but may or may not involve flexibility in terms of time. Learn more in: Re-Defining Work-Life Boundaries: Individual, Organizational, and National Policy Implications

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A synonym to the term “Telework” stressing the fact that through the arrangement real commuting between workplace and home is avoided Learn more in: Telework and Data Privacy and Security

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Commonly referred to as teleworking, implies that employees occasionally work on-site in addition to working remotely. Learn more in: Worker Response to the Rapid Changes Caused by Disruptive Innovation: Managing a Remote Workforce Without Any Training or Preparation

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Work from satellite offices or at home using a computer and related equipment that links the telecommuter to the employer’s main office Learn more in: Where Does Work End and Home Life Begin?

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Allowing employees to work at home via the use of technology such as cell phones and the internet. Learn more in: Demographic Changes and Equal Employment Opportunity Legislation: Implications for Leveraging Workforce Diversity in the Field of Human Resource Development

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Work arrangement in which employees employ telecommunication means to perform their tasks instead of commuting to a central work location. Learn more in: Media Channel Preferences of Mobile Communities

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Commonly referred to as teleworking, implies that employees occasionally work on-site in addition to working remotely. Learn more in: Women and Work During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic: Challenges, Intersectionality, and Opportunities

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Flexible work arrangement that allows employees to work at home. Learn more in: Leadership in Higher Education in Adopting a Telecommuting Program

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Telecommuting refers to the actual practice of converting a worker’s desire to complete their work from their home or other non-office environments, since it usually offers flexibility and reduces commuting costs and hassles. In addition, it allows the opportunity for workers to helping their balance work and their personal life obligations. Learn more in: Telecommuting and the Management of the Human Moment

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The practice of working from the employee’s home instead of physically commuting to a company office location. The connection to the office is done via telecommunications, rather than physically commuting (i.e., travelling) to the office. Learn more in: Effective Virtual Teams

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Allowing employees to work at home via the use of technology such as cell phones and the internet. Learn more in: Increased Workforce Diversity by Race, Gender, and Age and Equal Employment Opportunity Laws: Implications for Human Resource Development

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A remote work environment out of formal buildings offices. Learn more in: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Intergenerational Diversity

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Working from home, using technology as the vehicle for productivity and participation in work Learn more in: Computer Mediated Collaboration

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Refers to the working module where people work away from the office workstation with the use of telecommunication technologies such as Internet, computers, telephones, and other advanced network technologies. Learn more in: An International Virtual Office Communication Plan

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Taking the work to the worker, instead of the worker to the work, using telecommunications Learn more in: Telework in the Context of E-Collaboration

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Telecommuting is defined as, the practice of working at home or at a remote site in lieu of working in the office. Learn more in: Understanding Adverse Effects of E-Commerce

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This concept implies that certain trips to work, for example a few days a week, are substituted with work from home, from a satellite centre or from a neighbourhood office involving the use of ICTs (it exclusively applies to employees, not self-employed persons). Learn more in: Using Telework and E-Work as Flexible Working Alternatives

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Despite some academic distinctions, this term is used pretty much interchangeably with teleworking, and is the more common term in the United States. The conceptual emphasis is on replacing the commute journey through electronic access to the workplace, in this manner, the person can work from home, communicating with the workplace by, for example, telephone, fax, and/or e-mail: Learn more in: The Benefits of Home-Based Working's Flexibility