Couldn't resist pointing to this story from my colleague Bob Brown today. We've all heard the jokes about what our colleagues who work from home are wearing -- or not. For Tom Mulhall, though, telecommuting naked is no joke. Rather, it's good business. The owner (along with his wife) of The Terra Cotta Inn clothing-optional resort and spa in Palm Springs, Calif., Mulhall wrote to us this week "just wearing a smile" to say 80% of their guests bring laptops and work nude poolside (he was commenting on a study we wrote about last year that found one in eight male teleworkers and one in 14 female teleworkers say they do their jobs in the nude.
Couldn't resist pointing to this story from my colleague Bob Brown today. We've all heard the jokes about what our colleagues who work from home are wearing -- or not. For Tom Mulhall, though, telecommuting naked is no joke. Rather, it's good business. The owner (along with his wife) of The Terra Cotta Inn clothing-optional resort and spa in Palm Springs, Calif., Mulhall wrote to us this week "just wearing a smile" to say 80% of their guests bring laptops and work nude poolside (he was commenting on a study we wrote about last year that found one in eight male teleworkers and one in 14 female teleworkers say they do their jobs in the nude.