The cost of office space can be second only to employee costs for any business, and a problem for a new or rapidly growing company with limited resources. Telecommuting can be a solution, or it can be a problem, depending on how it's structured and managed. And it should be obvious that not all employees are good candidates for a telecommuting option. "The success of an employee working from home depends on the person, on the job and on the training the organization provides to do that role remotely," says Scott Boyar, Ph.D., associate professor of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Collat School of Business. "An organization has a lot of responsibility when letting workers go virtual, but the employee carries a lot of it too. There are questions an employee, or the employer, should ask." Does it fit my personality and preference for integrating work into my family environment? Can I structure my time and stay motivated to work throughout the da
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