Joyce Rosenberg, AP, writes in SFGate for the San Francisco Chronicle that tele-commuting has its pros and cons and requires a different management style. As I read the posting, it seems to me that most of the adjustment needs to come from the employee, to stay in touch and connected. The manager interviewed freely admits most of his on-site employees communicate primarily by email anyway, so why he feels phone calls are more necessary with his tele-commuting staff is not understood. Possibly a trust issue? He also says his tele-commuting still does the same good work. That, readers, is the bottom line.

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