USA Today reports that skyrocketing gas prices is driving an increased interest in telecommuting. For us it was the ability to work in our pajamas, but tomayto, tomahto…
A study by the Society for Human Resource Management, reports that “offering telecommuting options is among the top five approaches being used by companies to help employees deal with gas prices.”
And in other interesting telecommuting news, HP has made the curious move of reducing the number of IT staffers who telecommute.
“The IT organization has made a specific business decision to provide guidelines that locate more team members together in several core sites to facilitate face-to-face interaction and increase team effectiveness,” HP spokeswoman Emma Wischhusen said. The company says it’s a “a small fraction” of HP’s 150,000-employee workforce, she said.
“Increase team effectiveness” – don’t like the sound of that at all.
Via USA Today
