Telecommuting Can Be Bad For Those Who Don't

SirLurksAlot writes "An article up on Ars Technica reports on a study of telecommuting from the point of view of those who show up at the office every day. The study discovered that telecommuting can have adverse effects on the office-bound. Researcher Timothy Golden 'found that in-office employees took less satisfaction in their jobs and felt less of a relationship and obligation to their company as the number of telecommuting coworkers grew. In-office employees in his study became disappointed at having fewer and weaker relationships. They also got frustrated at a perceived increase in workload and difficulties that telecommuting can present to finishing projects and building strong working relationships.'" The article notes that telecommuting is "not an exact science." Some good insights in the discussion forum too.

Comments

You think that's bad?

[gandhi_2]

Imagine how people will feel when they find out half of their "co-workers" are just shell scripts.

Re:You think that's bad?

[vux984]

Heh, women's behavior resemble perl scripts already.

The key difference being the perl scripts made sense to somebody, at least once, for a little while...

Re:Perhaps looking at it the wrong way?

[ricebowl]

Well, you could always just RTFA rather than speculating, but I suppose that's just naive of me.

Hey, there's social rules and peer-pressure to consider. This is Slashdot, man; and here you're suggesting I could RTFA..? I'd be a laughing stock... ;)