Hackers IBT powertest I About telecommuting. |
Whether telecommuting is beneficial or not is controversial in this set of materials.
First of all, the reading passage explicates the employers as a beneficiary of telecommuting. It says that they can save money in regard to real estates because less space is required. In addition, the productivity of the workers skyrocket when they are allowed to work at home so employers can earn more benefit. However, the speaker rebuts the passage's claim by mentioning the defects of telecommuting. The money they can save from money in real estates is less than the money they can earn thanks to high productivity. Moreover, employees take excessive break and don't perfrom their tasks sincerely because there is no eye on them.
Second, the article suggests that employees also benefit from this system. They can make better relationships with the people around them and they have more time to enjoy their personal activity. In addition, they have no need to commute which takes quite a long time. However, the professor casts doubt on this claim by explaining the negative side of the telecommuting. People need social relationships in order to live a happy life but familial relationship is all they can get in telecommuting. In addition they have difficulty in distinguishing office task from home task and they are not able to do their work fluently.
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