3 Telecommuting benefits employees, as well. For those who need to balance work commitments with family commitments, telecommuting provides the means for working and communicating with coworkers and clients from home. Employees working part-time can manage their time more effectively, spending less time driving to one or more offices, and instead focusing on completing work assignments. The signals transmitted over the Internet do not recognize national borders. Work on the same project can be done in several places or several countries without workers having to physically relocate.
Organizations can now deploy resources and operations around the world.
Developing software, designing a car, providing consulting services to a client, can be done collaboratively by teams of employees from different parts of the world. For instance, an engineer in California can send an e-mail at the close of her business day to a colleague in Singapore, asking him to look over the attached design specifications for a new product. With the opportunities come serious challenges. Those that have a surplus will find job opportunities opening for their workers in overseas organizations. Even though the United States has led the world into the digital age, we face these same realities.