San Francisco is his kind of place. Two years ago, he became one of 11 million workers who take the information highway to work.
Bloom is a telecommuter.
A survey released Wednesday by Telecommute America, a public-private partnership formed to encourage telecommuting, shows 62 percent of 500 companies surveyed have more employees working at home than they did two years ago. Since 1995, the number of telecommuters has risen from 8 million to 11 million, according to another survey released in July. The number is expected to reach 14 million by 2000. The survey defined a telecommuter as an employee who works at least one day a week at home, a satellite office or while on the road keeping in touch via computer. Technology and increasing support by companies are the two major reasons for the steady increase in telecommuters, experts said.