This document discusses telecommuting and its impacts on employees and employers. It notes that [1] telecommuting can expand work hours beyond standard workweeks and increase employer work demands as telecommuters often work 5-7 extra hours per week and are more likely to work overtime. [2] Employers may have higher expectations that telecommuting employees will be available during evenings and weekends and work even when sick or on vacation due to technology enabling work from anywhere. [3] The document poses discussion questions about the pros and cons of telecommuting from employee and employer perspectives, what employee characteristics would make someone suitable for telecommuting, and how managers can regulate telecommuting to mitigate increased work-life conflicts and

1. TELECOMMUTING
Archana, Donna, Felecia, Paulina

2. WHAT IS
TELECOMMUTING
?

3. Archana, telecommuter from India

4. Donna, telecommuter from Israel

5.  Telecommuting expanded work hours beyond the standard
workweek and increased employer’s work demands
 Telecommuters worked 5 to 7 hours more per week
 Telecommuters are more likely to work overtime
 Employers have more expectations that employees will be available
to work during evenings and weekends; with technology, employees
are expected to do work even when sick or on vacation

6. VIRTUAL DISCUSSION
 1. Do you believe telecommuting is beneficial? Discuss some of the pro’s and
con’s associated from both an employee and employer point of view.
2. As a manager, what characteristics or work styles would you look for in an
employee to consider him/her “suitable” for a telecommuter work life?
3. What are some ways a manager can better regulate telecommuting to
mitigate some of its noted con’s (i.e, increased work/life balance
conflict, expanded work hours, etc.)?
4. Does granting some and not others the right to telecommute present room
for conflict, lower morale and motivation or other employee relation issues not
mentioned?

7. THANK YOU!