BusinessWeek makes the business case for telecommuting
March 11, 2009
One of the key groups of workers we hope to appeal to is people who drive long distances to work. In this article, BW lays out the benefits to companies for allowing workers to do their jobs remotely. It fits perfectly with our business plan.
Telecommuting: Once a Perk, Now a Necessity
BusinessWeek, March 10, 2009
Eve Gelb’s life was once a blur of hour-and-a-half commutes on the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles. What memories: The NPR fatigue. The stale minivan air. The deep identification with the characters in Waiting for Godot. But that’s all in the past. Gelb, a project manager at a giant HMO, SCAN Health Plan, has given up her Ethan Allen-style office, yanked down the family photos, and moved into her home office. Members of the professional class normally have to beg their managers—or at least delicately negotiate—to allow them to work remotely. But in Gelb’s case, it was her boss’s idea.
