Telecommuting Time

Kevin Coleman is a highly skilled senior level project and program manager/advisor with experience leading projects with labor budgets ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars to multi-million dollar budgets across multiple industries.

  Career Development   Communications Management   Governance   Talent Management  

If you read all the articles about telecommuting, clearly it is the future. I believe those articles are dead wrong. Telecommuting supports the three pillars of project governance, as long as a few simple guidelines are followed. Telecommuting is the here and now. This is especially true when it comes to program and project management.

Even if you believe this, the stats behind this observation are likely to surprise you. A 2013 survey by ESI International (Project Manager Salary & Development survey) found that 48 percent of those asked stated that it is very difficult to find senior-level talent. That same survey found that just over 89 percent replied it was very difficult or somewhat difficult. An article posted on LinkedIn stated that senior-level project managers are retiring at an increasing rate. Based on available stats, some 30 percent of PMI members who are 40+ years old are forecast to leave the workforce by 2018. That is just three short years away!  (Recruiting had better shift into high gear if these figures are anywhere close to being accurate.)

A year ago, Forbes online ran an article titled “Telecommuting Is the Future of Work”. In that article it stated that “a virtual employee is an established trend.” They were right. In 2013, telecommuting in the U.S. was estimated at 3.2 million workers. Another study found that…

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