The iPass survey also found that mobile employees are not only working longer hours, they are also more likely to telecommute. More than half (54 percent) of mobile employees worked from home at least one day per week. Mobile masters (62 percent) were more likely to work from home at least one day a week, followed by mobile maniacs (55 percent), the mobile minority (51 percent), and finally the mobile majority (50 percent). Almost 20 percent of the mobile minority did not telecommute at all:
Figure 5. Do you work from home? If so, how many hours per week?
Telecommuting Comments
“Working from home eliminates my travel time, so if I am working on an issue I continue until completion. Figure I would have been on the road anyway. So more productive…”
- Accounting, large consumer packaged goods company
“As someone who telecommutes most of the time, all I need to work is a solid Internet connection. Having a connection available when I am away from home means I can work from anywhere.”
- Editor, academic book publisher
