How a Telecommuting Tax Cut Would Fit Obama and McCain

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Home telecommuting is only one telecommuting option. Remote Office Centers offer another telcommuting option for workers who do not have adequate facilities at home or simply require the structure that comes from going to an office each day.
Remote Office Centers lease individual offices, internet, and phone systems to workers from different companies in shared ceners located around the suburbs.
Remote Office Centers are fairly new, but they offer an attractive alternative to both home telecommuting and working in a centralized corporate office.
Centers can be found by searching the internet for "Remote Office Centers" in quotes. The option is fairly new, but there are facilities in many cities. There is a free web site where people can search for centers by city:
http://www.remoteofficecenters.com
This is just one more option for people who want to save on gas and can do their jobs remotely.

aullman of TX 1:03AM September 09, 2008

If the 50 million Americans who hold telework-friendly jobs worked at home just half of the time, as a nation we could cut our Gulf Oil imports by almost 60% and reduce greenhouse gases by 78 million tons a year.
We've synthesized information from over 250 studies of telecommuting and related topics. We've interviewed dozens of telework enthusiasts and naysayers including researchers, Fortune 500 executives, virtual employers, venture capitalists who support the remote work model, and dozens of home-based workers in a wide variety of professions.
What we've concluded is that while there are some very real barriers to telework, the industry pioneers have proven it can be done and it is worth the effort. Telework offers a pull, rather than a push solution to a wide range of problems. It benefits employers, employees, and the community. A strong national telework strategy would substantially reduce our Gulf Oil dependence. It would bring traffic jams to a halt and reduce the carnage on our highways. It would alleviate the strain on our crumbling transportation infrastructure. It would help reclaim many of the jobs that have been lost to offshoring, and provide new employment opportunities for at-home caregivers, the disabled, and the un- and under-employed. It would improve family life, and emancipate latchkey kids. It would substantially bolster pandemic and disaster preparedness. It would reduce global warming. And it would save companies and individuals billions of dollars.
Naysayers argue that not every person or every job is right for telework. I don't argue that point. But studies show that 40% of jobs could be done from home and two-thirds of the working population say they'd prefer it. What's more, the companies that have tried telework have proven that the negatives can be easily overcome and the pros far outweigh the cons (http://undress4success.com/telework-pros-cons).
It's time we make the road less traveled our way to work.

Kate Lister of CA 3:48PM September 08, 2008

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Peter of AZ 11:18AM September 04, 2008