Techies Overwhelmingly Want More Telecommuting, techies.com Survey Says.Business Editors/Technology Writers MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2001 They'll they'll Contraction of they will. they'll will give up fast-track fast track n. Informal The quickest and most direct route to achievement of a goal, as in competing for professional advancement: "Making complaints against the public is hardly the fast track to elective office" careers, management opportunities and even money to be able to work from home at least part-time, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an exclusive techies.com survey 96 percent of the 1,953 technology professionals in a recent techies.com survey said they wanted to work from home at least a few hours every week. And 39 percent said they'd take a pay cut to be able to telecommute See telecommuting. . Yet only 48 percent said they were telecommuting telecommuting, an arrangement by which people work at home using a computer and telephone, transmitting work material to a business office by means of a modem and telephone lines; it is also known as telework. now. Techies.com's latest survey, conducted in August 2001, asked members to describe the pitfalls, advantages and how-tos of telecommuting. Respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. ranged from PC operators to CIOs. Most said the advantages of telecommuting far outweighed the disadvantages. But they also acknowledged that telecommuters might have to accept a slower rate of career advancement in exchange for working from home. Overall, respondents said that avoiding the commute TO COMMUTE. To substitute one punishment in the place of another. For example, if a man be sentenced to be hung, the executive may, in some states, commute his punishment to that of imprisonment. was a primary motivation for telecommuting. Techies in high-population areas, particularly on the West Coast, were especially likely to want to lose the drive into work. Second on the popularity list: the ability to control your own hours while telecommuting. Of those in the survey who did work from home regularly during the business day, more than half said they telecommuted 10 or more hours each week. But relatively few, outside the self-employed, were full-time telecommuters. Telecommuting proved heavily dependent on profession. Level of experience was also a strong factor in the degree of telecommuting. Only 32 percent of entry-level workers practiced any form of telecommuting, but almost the inverse (mathematics) inverse - Given a function, f : D -> C, a function g : C -> D is called a left inverse for f if for all d in D, g (f d) = d and a right inverse if, for all c in C, f (g c) = c and an inverse if both conditions hold. was true for those with 10 or more years of experience. There, 67 percent said they telecommuted at least a few hours each week. A datasheet detailing top survey findings can be found at http://inside.techies.com/Research/index.html. For additional data points from the survey and comments from participants and researchers, please contact techies.com. About techies.com Headquartered in Bloomington, MN, techies.com is an e-cruiting Web site focused on the career advancement of technology professionals. Over 830,000 members use the techies.com community to find great jobs, improve their technical and managerial skills through training, obtain lucrative consulting assignments, and learn the best ways to build solid technology career paths. Corporate clients use techies.com to find and hire highly skilled technologists. |
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