To summarize and conclude, telecommuting is very important to the North American economy. I urge you to seek out economic development leaders as an audience to be educated. Help economic developers to discover and embrace and support those millions of employed telecommuters that already exist in hundreds of thousands of businesses. Help make support of telecommuting a part of good regional gardening. And help move telecommuting beyond productivity improvement and taking cars off the road toward becoming a vehicle for people finding self-sufficiency, new choices, better jobs, wealth, and hope.
Telecommuting is the gateway to a garden where the seeds of new businesses are planted.
Some of these businesses will fail. Many of them will at best provide a temporary livelihood for the owners and their dependents. But a few of these enterprises will grow and become employers of others, a source of jobs for the future.