A Third of the U.S. Workforce Expected to Telework Within the Next Four Years

It’s a certainty that high fuel costs and an aversion to long commutes will create an increase in the number of employees working from home offices or from satellite offices close to home. From Web Worker Daily comes a commentary by Imran Ali on an article by Kurt Cagle titled Telework as the New Face of the Agile Workforce. Mr. Ali writes:

“With estimates that around a third of the US workforce will demand to telework within the next four years, it’s clear organizations aren’t culturally attuned to manage a distributed workforce. I’d go further and state that government is tone deaf to the possibilities of incentivizing teleworking as a means to reduce the burden on congested transport networks.”

A friend of mine predicted high fuel costs would be the death of the suburbs. But, as workers abandon long commutes to offices in the downtown core for home offices in the suburbs, cities may be the ones to suffer. (RN)

Trends in Teleworking | Web Worker Daily | Imran Ali | 5 September 2008

Tagged as: Talent Management, Telework