This growing trend could begin to transform both home and community life. Visionaries have long hoped that this migration to home-based work would strengthen families and neighborhoods weakened by long commutes and the increasingly long work day. Kids can benefit from an increase in parental presence, they can pick up healthy work ethics from parents working at home and the parents can feel more involved in their family. While this all sounds good there are still some kinks to be worked out. The other is that home-office technology can make it easier to ignore time zones and geographic boundaries so that work begins to creep into nights and weekends.
Teleworking does lead to flexibility.
So you'd think that teleworking would lead to better work-life balance. It's in the individual making use of the practice to have a full life. And boy are some people pissed. Rookie phenom Kerry Wood set the major league record for strikeouts in consecutive games the other night, but Cubs fans that do not subscribe to cable could not see it. The Headlines are highlights of news articles summarized by staff at the Benton Foundation.