Comments on: The Invisible Rise of Cross-Border Telecommuters http://www.myglobalcareer.com/2009/10/19/the-invisible-rise-of-cross-border-telecommuters/ Advancing your career in the global economy. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:40:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.myglobalcareer.com/wp-content/themes/myglobalcareer/_media/_global/logo.gif My Global Career: Advancing your career in the global economy. http://www.myglobalcareer.com By: The Invisible Rise of Cross-Border Telecommuters | NorthernTelework.ca http://www.myglobalcareer.com/2009/10/19/the-invisible-rise-of-cross-border-telecommuters/comment-page-1/#comment-20958 The Invisible Rise of Cross-Border Telecommuters | NorthernTelework.ca Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:48:47 +0000 http://www.myglobalcareer.com/archives/2008/10/13/the-invisible-rise-of-cross-border-telecommuters/#comment-20958 [...] Via My Global Career. [...] [...] Via My Global Career. [...]

]]> By: Robert Moskowitz http://www.myglobalcareer.com/2009/10/19/the-invisible-rise-of-cross-border-telecommuters/comment-page-1/#comment-16997 Robert Moskowitz Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:00:34 +0000 http://www.myglobalcareer.com/archives/2008/10/13/the-invisible-rise-of-cross-border-telecommuters/#comment-16997 Technology plays an important part here. As the available and affordable bandwidth increases, the practical difference between face-to-face communications and telecommuting become smaller. Already, they are acceptably small for many situations. Soon, they will be acceptably small for nearly all work-related situations. The larger impediment to cross-border telecommuting (aside from language issues) is the reluctance of managers to try it. This was the same obstacle that more localized telecommuting faced decades ago. It has largely disappeared, and the same will happen with the unwillingness to experiment with longer-distance telecommuting. The extreme economic and physical costs of traveling for work will gradually become less and less acceptable, driving the trend toward cross-border telecommuting to the point where it is commonplace. Technology plays an important part here. As the available and affordable bandwidth increases, the practical difference between face-to-face communications and telecommuting become smaller. Already, they are acceptably small for many situations. Soon, they will be acceptably small for nearly all work-related situations.

The larger impediment to cross-border telecommuting (aside from language issues) is the reluctance of managers to try it. This was the same obstacle that more localized telecommuting faced decades ago. It has largely disappeared, and the same will happen with the unwillingness to experiment with longer-distance telecommuting.

The extreme economic and physical costs of traveling for work will gradually become less and less acceptable, driving the trend toward cross-border telecommuting to the point where it is commonplace.

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