They may want to raise their family in a rural community beyond comfortable commuting distance, or be certain a parent is in the house when the kids come home from school. Increased leisure time may be more important than maximizing career advancement at corporate headquarters for some. There will be trade-offs as the advantages and disadvantages for company and employee are discovered. There will be success stories as well as experiments that fail. Working at home is not best for everyone, and many jobs can only be done in an office, store or factory.
Telecommuting offers environmental advantages as a byproduct of economic and technological growth.
My proposal to change the tax code so that it encourages telecommuting and home offices is unique among federal environmental initiatives. It seeks to increase the rewards of entrepreneurial activity, not tax, regulate and punish it. Private enterprise is on the verge of technological developments that will help us conserve our natural resources as well as improve the human environment. Clearly, the way to stimulate these progressive changes is by reducing unfair taxes and wrongheaded regulations.