The use of computers and telecommunications can enable work to be done at a location remote from an organisation’s office; a development known as telecommuting. Telecommuting involves working away from the office and communicating with the employer through the use of telecommunications equipment. Telecommuters can be based at home, in satellite offices or even, due to the advances in technology, on the move. It is often misconstrued as working from a home via the …showed first 75 words of 1883 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1883 total…the manufacturing economy of the Industrial Revolution that workers began leaving their homes each day, assembling together for employment, then returning home. Before the industrial revolution, the lines between work and family and education and entertainment were indistinct. Before the industrial revolution the daily routine of most people was agriculture based, the proportion of the population were subsistence farmers. With the advent of telecommuting and tele-education the indistinction between work and family life will return.