The "Water Fueled Car"

[--Pete]

Hi,

Rather, have the Federal Government offer corporate tax incentives for allowing some of their workers to telecommute at least 2 days per week.

You mean the USA Federal Government? You know, the one that's dominated by cronies of big oil?

If companies can work out the communications for outsourcing jobs to India, you'd think they could figure out how to communicate with their own workers in the suburbs.

Like a bad teacher, most managers can do little more than take a head count and watch how much time the employee spends away from his desk. Outsourcing to India outsources the management function, telecommuting requires managers that can actually evaluate a person's productivity.

Sorry, but while I agree with you, my cynicism based on observations of how things really seem to work leads me to believe that we'll be seeing pigs fly before we see big companies embracing telecommuting in more than a token manner.

--Pete