27 Jun
Alternatives to Telecommuting
Posted in Blog Jobs, Blogger Jobs, Career, Telecommute Jobs by Damien | No Comments
For some reason, the mental block that a lot of people seem to have with telecommuting is a strong one and for that reason many people have been looking for alternatives to telecommuting. As some that telecommutes to work all the time, I don’t particularly understand the objections to it, but I dutifully tried to examine the problem in order to see if any alternatives were available.
Off the top of my head, the only other viable alternative I could think of was sleeping over at the office. If people brought a week’s worth of clothing with them and had access to a shower close to their office, they could conceivably sleep over at the office from Monday night to Thursday night, coming home on Friday in order to spend the weekend with their family. This would cut down their weekly fuel consumption by 80% (they would still need to commute one-way on Monday morning and Friday evening) and ostensibly save them a lot of money in the process.
Personally, I think that as a solution this is nowhere near as good as telecommuting. Telecommuting allows you to spend all of your evenings with your family and it allows you to be around for family emergencies that might happen. It brings families together rather than forcing them apart and for these reasons and more is simply a much better solution to a person’s current gasoline woes.
