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What is Teleworking or Telecommuting (as defined by the father of Telecommuting/Teleworking, Jack Nilles)?

Teleworking, also known as telecommuting, replaces travel to, from and for with telecommunications technologies. It refers to working at home or another location on a full or part time basis.

Telecommuting is a form of teleworking; all telecommuters are teleworkers but not all teleworkers are telecommuters. It is basically moving the work to the workers instead of moving the workers to work; periodic work out of the principal office, one or more days per week either at home or in a telework center. The emphasis here is on reduction or elimination of the daily commute to and from the workplace.

Teleworking on the otherhand, includes such variations as home-based businesses that use telecommunications to work with their customers, as well as those who may commute every day to some traditional location but use information technologies to deal mostly with people in other cities, states, or countries.

The Father of Teleworking/Telecommuting

The term 'telecommuting' was coined by Jack Nilles and was first used in the United States. Jack Nilles, a physicist and an engineer at Lawrence University, Ohio State University and UCLA, he began his professional career as an officer in the US Air Force at the Aerial Reconnaissance Laboratory of Wright Air Development Center in