The immense controversy caused by major companies such as Yahoo, Best Buy and Bank of America rethinking their liberal telecommuting policies is indicative of employees’ new expectations for flexible work schedules. Not surprisingly, when employees are given a benefit for years (no matter what that perk is), they almost have a sense of entitlement to it. When employees saw that progressive giants such as Yahoo were reconsidering their position about workplace flexibility, it made headlines across the nation.
The focus of the telecommuting news centered around employee productivity, creativity and integration at the job, as well as the practicalities of integrating a work-from-home policy into the business model. But what wasn’t mentioned was anything about the actual telecommuting policies themselves. What were they composed of? Were employers reconsidering their policies because of the increased insurance risk of telecommuting employees?
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