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Report shows growing number of workers opt to telecommute.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2004
By Peter Hull, The Island Packet, Hilton Head Island, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 5--It could be the ultimate commute: A short walk from the bedroom to the home office, via the kitchen for coffee. With commute times in most metropolitan districts getting longer and longer, more people are choosing a life away from corporate America for the flexibility of a home-based business.
Nearly 4.2 million people worked from home in 2000, according to a recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau, up 23 percent from about 3.4 million in 1990 and up 100 percent from 2.1 million in 1980, as first fax machines then e-mail and the Internet brought the business world closer. More recent data suggest the trend is continuing, with the bureau's...
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