Three days a week, Lauren Fitzgerald drives from her home in Orange to her job at The Pension Service Inc., a North Haven business that keeps records for other companies’ employee benefit and retirement plans. The other two days a week, she works from home, under guidelines hammered out by her company that are designed to head off any legal problems before they arise.

Fitzgerald is one of more than 158,000 Connecticut residents who regularly telecommute from home at least once a month, a number that’s grown by 86 percent over five years, according to a new state survey. For Fitzgerald, the skyrocketing price of gas is the main reason she’s telecommuted for the past year, she said.

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