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More people are working away from their offices -- and besides heading to the home office or kitchen table, they're going to a client's workplace more often.
The number of people who work remotely at least once a month grew 39 percent from 2006 to 2008, and is up 74 percent since 2005, according to WorldatWork, a human resources association, and Dieringer Research Group. Their report, based on a telephone survey of 1,002 workers, estimates 11 percent of all workers telecommute at least once a month.
Driving the gains were the spread of high-speed Internet and last year's spike in gas prices, as well as more work-life programs.
Only about 40 percent of the teleworkers were out of the office almost every day. That's down from 51 percent two years earlier.
Fewer workers are heading to a coffee shop or library, WorldatWork said. Increasingly, they're going to a client's quarters -- four in 10, a big increase from the 2006 survey.
One quarter worked from an airport or subway station, and one in five worked while in transit on the plane, train or subway. More than a third worked in their car -- parked, we hope.
-- Vickie Elmer
