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Notes & Links

Telecommuting Trend Retrenchment

Wall Street Journal reports on possible retrenchment in telecommuting policies: AT&T, Intel, HP, and the federal government have all started putting workers back into the office.

Although working from home has been expanding steadily, some chinks are appearing in the trend. A few big promoters of home-based and mobile-office work arrangements, including AT&T, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and parts of the federal government, have called some home-based workers back to the office, causing some to quit. The callbacks are small and don't reflect a full retrenchment, but the factors at work -- a push to consolidate operations, and the notion that teamwork improves when people work face-to-face -- suggest other employers might follow suit as recession clouds loom.

Link. Via Web Worker Daily.

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