Telework Pros and Cons: 28 Reasons To ‘Telework’- With Data To Back Them Up

The terms telework and telecommuting were coined by Jack Nilles (http://www.jala.com), a former NASA engineer, more than three decades ago. “One of my colleagues at NASA was carrying on about if we can put a man on the moon, we ought to be able to do something about traffic,” recalls Jack. So that’s what he set out to do. Today, about five million Americans earn a full-time paycheck working at home. Our research shows than another fifty million could. While the concept of telework has been simmering for years, soaring gas prices are fanning the flame such that we may have finally reached a tipping point.

I’ve been working from home for over 25 years. Two years ago my husband and I sold the vintage aircraft flightseeing business that we operated for over sixteen years