telecommute
电子通勤,远程办公,远程通信,电子通迅
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tel·e·com·mut·ed, tel·e·com·mut·ing.
- : to work at home by using a computer that is electronically linked to the network of one's place of employment.
Examples
When shops and restaurants shuttered at the start of the pandemic, causing widespread layoffs elsewhere, most residents were able to telecommute.
Post-pandemic, 33 percent said they expected to telecommute at least once a week.
According to a recent survey of 2,400 residents by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Transportation Planning Board, 16 percent of area residents said they telecommuted at least once per week before the pandemic.
Giving parents the freedom to go to work, even if they telecommute, rather than also having to oversee their kids’ school day, is what will get businesses going again, and get our economy back on track.
For the same reason that meetings are more efficient than endless email threads, not all business can be conducted by telecommute.