Teleworking Declined In 2010

Despite technological advances, videoconferencing (even from iPads!), blazing fast Internet, and the availability of at least one Starbucks per every square mile of the U.S.*, the number of Americans telecommuting dropped in 2010, a new study shows.

The survey conductors, from the World At Work, a nonprofit focusing on HR issues, say that a number of factors are to blame. One is job insecurities, where employees anxious about their jobs likely figured that if they put in more “face time” they’d be less likely to be laid off.

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