Dear Dear Increasingly, private and public organizations are adopting telecommuting as a business strategy. Many companies use telecommuting as a perk to attract and retain top talent. The Dallas Museum of Art searched far and wide for the best expert on European art when it hired Dorothy Kosinski as curator, even though she continues to live in Basel, Switzerland.
Telecommuting expands the radius of the labor pool.
For example, Micro Focus, headquartered in Newbury, England, has several computer programmers working from home-one lives in Florida. Telework also provides staffing flexibility. America West Vacations, located in Phoenix, moved a group of agents home. Home-based telecommuters continue to work at home with a cold or other minor ailment that may have kept them out of the office. In fact, telecommuters work longer hours and more workdays than the average employee.