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Telecommuting as an emerging technology has helped many companies achieve cost-effectiveness in many of their operations. In fact, allowing employees to work from their home or a flexible office has enabled many companies to save substantially on their office space requirements. Similarly, it has helped organizations to save the transportation cost incurred on their employees. E-commuting has also saved the time and energy of the employees, who would have otherwise spent them on their travel to and from office. Understandably, the time and energy saved must have been utilized in their work, thus enhancing the productivity significantly. However, employees preferring telecommuting need to be self-motivated and self-disciplined and have strong work ethics and sufficient behavioural maturity.

Many IT companies in India have shifted different degrees of their workforce to the e-commuting mode and gained immensely from the innovative exercise. For instance, Accenture India has adopted this technique to attract the best talents in the IT field, especially women and the physically challenged. Similarly, Cisco India uses this technology resourcefully to achieve work-life integration and boost up employee motivation and organizational productivity. Sun Microsystems has accomplished new milestones in the concept of e-commuting. Nearly half of its employees were brought under some form of the e-commuting scheme, which enabled the company to cut costs substantially and contributed to the cause of energy conservation and pollution control.

Telecommuting as an emerging technology has helped many companies achieve cost-effectiveness in many of their operations. In fact, allowing employees to work from their home or a flexible office has enabled many companies to save substantially on their office space requirements. Similarly, it has helped organizations to save the transportation cost incurred on their employees. E-commuting has also saved the time and energy of the employees, who would have otherwise spent them on their travel to and from office. Understandably, the time and energy saved must have been utilized in their work, thus enhancing the productivity significantly. However, employees preferring telecommuting need to be self-motivated and self-disciplined and have strong work ethics and sufficient behavioural maturity.

Many IT companies in India have shifted different degrees of their workforce to the e-commuting mode and gained immensely from the innovative exercise. For instance, Accenture India has adopted this technique to attract the best talents in the IT field, especially women and the physically challenged. Similarly, Cisco India uses this technology resourcefully to achieve work-life integration and boost up employee motivation and organizational productivity. Sun Microsystems has accomplished new milestones in the concept of e-commuting. Nearly half of its employees were brought under some form of the e-commuting scheme, which enabled the company to cut costs substantially and contributed to the cause of energy conservation and pollution control.