In a recent commentary in Mother Jones, Kiera Butler examines coworking, the solution telecommuters seek when they find they are missing the social life of the office. Last October, Rep. Frank Wolf wrote the White House with a radical proposal to promote “environmental stewardship, family values and energy independence.” In asking President Bush to designate [...]

A recently published study on telecommuting has generated controversy, as Andrew R. McIlvaine reports in Human Resource Executive Online. Teleworking: Good or bad? Depends whom you ask. A recent study that warned of the potentially adverse effects of teleworking on co-workers left behind in the office was hotly disputed by the nation’s largest teleworking association. [...]