With the right approach, a little research and a good proposal, many employees are selling the idea of telecommuting to their employers. In this first segment, we focus on the steps you should take in order to determine whether or not your job is a candidate for telecommuting. Your first step should be to evaluate your current job and determine whether or not it is feasible to do it from home. If your job only requires Internet access, phone and fax, it is definitely possible to do it from a home office. However, if you are a receptionist in a medical office, you probably have other responsibilities that require you to physically be there, i.e. having patients fill out paperwork and filing.
Some people are perfectly content to work on their own.
Others need the support of having a supervisor and co-workers nearby. Monitor yourself for a week. Be aware of how often you rely on others and how you would deal with it if you had been away from the office. In some cases, a supervisor may feel that getting phone calls from a remote employee is disruptive, while a quick question in the hallway is not. Do some research and find out if it s already being done.