Telecommuting enables you to balance competing demands. They value things besides money and status. The evidence is that they are leaving lucrative positions because there is too much hassle. Professionals are demonstrating this more than anyone. These changes require reconsideration of current management styles and a thoughtful look at telecommuting.
Telecommuting also can ease personal crisis situations.
For example, failed child care arrangements, unexpected school closings, a child's sudden ill health, extreme weather conditions, and transportation failures can cause tremendous stress over how the work will get done. These emergencies are more manageable for a lawyer with the capacity and option to work at home. Mr. Rood enjoys being able to smoke while he writes his briefs, which he is not permitted to do in the commission's offices. Telecommuters also can live in communities more desirable to them than the communities closer to the office. Further, a lawyer with the technological capability to work anytime anywhere has the flexibility to work during those hours when he is most energetic and will be most creative.