The idea of this blog came to me as a result of a chain of events that I may get to write about in more details in my future postings. This chain started from a Practicum at Isenberg School of Management, UMASS Amherst, where TnR (myself in this case) worked with three very capable MBA students, Chris Woodworth, Erin Rice, and Christina Danforth, who helped find a niche where there is yet to be a lot done for telecommuters and potential candidates for telecommuting.
During Practicum, Chris Woodworth came up with an idea on how to ‘classify’ telecommuters to help understand their needs better. A picture worth a thousand words.
Among many other possible views, telecommuters can be classified based on where they work from, how many days they telecommute, and what generation they are (from Gen Yers to Gen Xers to Baby Boomers). Based on this view, there can be nine potential categories.
For example: a Baby Boomer working for a big corporation and telecommuting two days a week or a Generation Xer working from home for a small business and telecommuting five days a week.
This categorization will become meaningful and important as we explore needs of telecommuters in their telecommuting lives.
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The idea of this blog came to me as a result of a chain of events that I may get to write about in more details in my future postings. This chain started from a Practicum at Isenberg School of Management, UMASS Amherst, where TnR (myself in this case) worked with three very capable MBA students, Chris Woodworth, Erin Rice, and Christina Danforth, who helped find a niche where there is yet to be a lot done for telecommuters and potential candidates for telecommuting.
During Practicum, Chris Woodworth came up with an idea on how to ‘classify’ telecommuters to help understand their needs better. A picture worth a thousand words.
Among many other possible views, telecommuters can be classified based on where they work from, how many days they telecommute, and what generation they are (from Gen Yers to Gen Xers to Baby Boomers). Based on this view, there can be nine potential categories.
For example: a Baby Boomer working for a big corporation and telecommuting two days a week or a Generation Xer working from home for a small business and telecommuting five days a week.
This categorization will become meaningful and important as we explore needs of telecommuters in their telecommuting lives.
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June 29th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
[…] I actually thought I would write how you can become a telecommuter. In this post I showed a picture (that is worth thousand words) of different ‘types’ of telecommuters. Let’s add a few words to it. […]