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When Telecommuting Fails
Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.
There is a guilty pleasure in being a telecommuter. When you first start doing it, it feels like you’re being slightly naughty--as if you were sneaking around your parents’ kitchen and grabbing a cookie you weren’t supposed to have.
As controversial as it was some years ago, the telecommuting movement has gained significant ground and continues to be a growing field. That being said, recent studies have found only about four percent of the workforce in the United States share the benefits of telecommuting. With office real estate being at such a premium, especially in high-rent cities, you would think that the number would be higher.
Time is also a premium that is forever slipping through our fingers. With technological breakthroughs in terms of connectivity, both in voice and data, dead zones are now coming to life. This means that we are accessible and can be reached in places where we couldn’t be before.
Leaving cares behind at the office after a grueling day means putting them on hold until you can turn on a speakerphone or connect a headpiece for the afternoon commute and later log on at dinnertime. Weekends are instead longer moments of relaxation between emergencies or tight deadlines. Vacations are thinly veiled attempts to fully escape with hopes that perhaps one time you won’t be needed.
Workers want …
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