“Small companies are embracing telecommuting now more than ever, says Mike Williams of the Atlanta-based Clean Air Campaign. A survey this year indicated about 12% of the workers at companies with 21 to 100 employees sometimes telecommute.”

One advantage smaller businesses have over other types of business is less red tape.  In a larger firm, rules that are meant to help bring order to their employees can sometimes mean it limits them as well.  In smaller firms, there is also a more personalized work environment.  People know each other a little better, and can trust that the telecommuter will indeed be working when they say they are.

I was interested about this information and took an informal (and completely unscientific) study of my own.  One of my friends that telecommutes one day a week works for a firm with over 10,000 people.  Two more of my friends that telecommute are at smaller companies, with less than 100 employees.  When I was at my last job, we had 25 employees and my boss was madly mistrustful about telecommuting. 

Let me hear from you.  Do you telecommute?  And if so, what size firm do you work for?

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