{"id":4574,"date":"2013-01-24T14:21:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T19:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sourcelive.wordpress.com\/?p=4574"},"modified":"2013-01-24T14:21:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T19:21:23","slug":"telecommuting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/?p=4574","title":{"rendered":"Is Telecommuting an Option for Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century workplace, certain jobs and tasks can be executed outside of the office; this is known as telecommuting. Telecommuting is a program that allows staff to work from a remote location for a portion of their normally-scheduled work hours.<\/p>\n<p>Telecommuting has potential benefits for the work done within a department: increased performance and productivity, decreased absenteeism and turnover, improved work\/life balance and job satisfaction, reduced energy\/fuel usage and associated greenhouse gases, and increased office space flexibility.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4744\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4744\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hr.msu.edu\/telecommuting\/telecommuterinfo.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4744\" alt=\"Woman working in home office\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/telecommuting_home_office.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/telecommuting_home_office.jpg?w=506&amp;ssl=1 506w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/telecommuting_home_office.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Telecommuters need to consider certain criteria when designating an alternate work location.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Not all positions and departments will benefit from, nor are suited for, telecommuting. Discuss this out-of-office work approach with your supervisor to see if your job is suited for telecommuting and if it will benefit both you and your department.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about telecommuting, please visit the <a title=\"HR telecommuting page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hr.msu.edu\/telecommuting\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HR telecommuting site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 21st century workplace, certain jobs and tasks can be executed outside of the office; this is known as telecommuting. Telecommuting is a program that allows staff to work from a remote location for&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/?p=4574\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span> Is Telecommuting an Option for Me?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb1fcA-1bM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}