One reason is that employers may not be adequately training their staffs to deal with the telecommuting experience. Even when employers do provide training, they often focus on the wrong aspects of telecommuting, says Schilling. When you re implementing a telecommuting program, step one is to understand that there are a lot of issues at play beyond technology-and that the cultural, managerial and interpersonal implications of telecommuting are really much bigger than technology. In fact, the four problem areas Wallace sees with telecommuting have nothing to do with technology. Lack of face time.
Managers have to learn new ways to measure productivity.
This also may cause some resentment among other workers in the office. Absence from the workplace. The inventiveness and energy that drive innovation can get lost when people are not interacting with one another on a regular basis. There is an assumption in telecommuting that, somehow, home is going to be a friendlier, easier, quieter place to work than the office. That s not always the case.