Chapter 8 Human Resources Telecommuting or “teleworks” is the process where empl

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Chapter 8 Human Resources

Telecommuting or “teleworks” is the process where employees work electronically from a location that they choose. It is estimated that up to 40% of US companies practice telecommuting. As discussed in this chapter there are many pros and cons to this practice.

In a one to two page paper please discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages of telecommuting from both the employee and manager's perspective. Is this something that you would be interested in if your present employer offered? Should employees that telecommute be paid any differently?

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Telecommuting is indeed a fascinating practice wherein employees are given an option by their employers to work remotely and do not have to travel all the way to their company’s location in order to complete their work. It has especially gained popularity in an age wherein means of electronic communication, virtual meeting through video conferencing etc. have proliferated a lot. In fact an ever growing number of companies have adopted this practice and their large numbers are testimony to the success of this practice.

There are multiple advantages of this practice such as:

There are however disadvantages also:

It would be definitely interesting to try working on a telecommuting basis if the employer provides the facility as this would save precious time spent on road. The compensation should not be any different as the amount of value add remains the same by the employee to the organization.

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