The government is getting back on the telecommuting bandwagon in an attempt to promote a better a work-life balance for the nation’s stressed-out workforce and to combat global warming.
In 2007, the government laid out a plan to expand the telecommuting workforce to 13 million by 2010, or double the 2005 level, to let public- and private-sector employees work from home over the Internet.
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