“Roughly one out of every six American workers commutes more than forty-five minutes, each way. People travel between counties the way they used to travel between neighborhoods. The number of commuters who travel ninety minutes or more each way—known to the Census Bureau as ‘extreme commuters’—has reached 3.5 million, almost double the number in 1990,” according to There and Back Again: The soul of the commuter, from the New Yorker. Did I mention that Abraham Harrison LLC doesn’t have an office? Everybody telecommutes. Everybody’s remote. Nobody commutes— for us. Does that make us family-, sanity-, resource- and eco-friendly? Yes.
Telecommuting Preserves Sanity, Resources and the Earth
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It is so true. As much as we talk about technology and the internet changing the way goods are sold, information is shared, and all the many other exciting options it is the telecommuting and its potential to change the landscape of how so many companies work. It allows you to work for someone you want to irrespective of where they are located and at the same time continue to exist and interact with your community that you live in.
Your work dictated by your life. Not your life dictated by your work. So, where ever I go my work can go to. It is true that this has its pitfalls – never being disconnected from work – but it allows such freedom and flexibility.
Now, if we could only get our health insurance to be unconnected from our work and we may just be an inch closer to the 21st century.
Freedom to work!