When a workplace is your possess home

(CBS News) Oh, a joys of operative during home. With a home office, we can nap later, equivocate a dreaded morning rush — and your trainer in a bargain. But before we join this flourishing trend, watch what Martha Teichner detected in a “Sunday Morning” Cover Story.

It’s 5:58 a.m. Dr. Samir Shah, a radiologist who lives outward Pittsburgh, is about to start his morning commute.

It takes him reduction than 10 seconds, as he walks downstairs.

Nothing like a full hour it used to take — any approach — on tip of a 60-plus hours a week he spent doing his pursuit when he worked in a hospital.

Looking during images many matching to those he would see there, now he sits in his groundwork office, reading X-rays, CT scans and MRIs from all over a United States that his employer, Minnesota-based Virtual Radiologic (or VRAD) sends his way.

Dr. Shah is a full-time telecommuter. He works set shifts, and afterwards indeed gets to spend time with his family.

“My whole life is improved now; we feel like I’m a luckiest man in a universe to have this job,” pronounced Dr. Shah. “I feel like we do my pursuit better, and we feel like I’m a improved dad. we feel like I’m a improved husband.”

Does this sound like work heaven? What does it contend that a choice has turn a theme of shade comedies like “Office Space”?

To commute, or telecommute? That is a doubt during a heart of what might or might not be a elemental change in a approach Americans work.

“The biggest myth is that a lot of people are doing it,” pronounced sociologist Jennifer Glass, a highbrow during a Univ. of Texas during Austin who studies telecommuting.

“It has not by any means taken over a occupational landscape,” she said. “It’s still very, really restricted.”

There are no decisive statistics; a numbers count on who’s doing a counting, and how they conclude “telecommuting.”

In a new CBS News poll, 24 percent pronounced they telecommute frequently for their jobs.

The unwashed small tip is what telecommuting means to many telecommuters. To what border is a imagination pretension “telecommuting” only another approach to get sucked into
being during work, or accessible to work, 24/7?

“It’s still really many about holding work home,” pronounced Glass. “It’s about overtime telecommuting, when you’ve already put in a estimable volume of time, full-time, during a office.”

But demeanour that days people are many expected to work from home: Monday (38%) and Friday (38%). Employers mostly protest that telecommuting is only another word for goofing off. In a CBS News poll, 40 percent of telecommuters contend they work fewer hours during home than during a office; though a sum of 60 percent contend they work a same hours or more.

Most telecommuters are higher-paid salaried workers or professionals, though a series of hourly employees who telecommute is rising.

Each day, Michelle Muir puts on her jetBlue T-shirt and her jetBlue aeroplane slippers. She handles reservations from 7 to 5, with a integrate of breaks.

What a airline calls a patron support group — some-more than 1,900 employees — work from home in and around Salt Lake City. The arrangement saves a association a lot of income on bureau space.

For Muir, a righteous Mormon, it means she can be a homemaker, mother and grandmother she wants to be.

“It’s a additional income that we need,” she said. “so it works good for us. And who would wish to give adult this small man and not see him?” she added, kissing a baby.

But how does jetBlue know Michelle Muir is indeed working? All her calls are available — and her administrator can see and hear accurately what she’s doing.

Rebecca Ludlow works from jetBlue’s patron support core a few miles divided — solely when she, too, telecommutes one day a week.

Ludlow frequently critiques Muir’s calls:

“The initial mainstay here is “Be in blue always.” I’m gonna contend we did a good pursuit being in blue, we paint jetBlue really good . . . “

So you’ve got jetBlue (known for a patron service) on lists of good companies to work for, committed to telecommuting.

Then there’s Zappos.com, a Las Vegas-based online shoe and appendage retailer, also famous for patron service, and on lists of a best employers. It discourages telecommuting. The wide-open bureau spaces where a 1,400 employees work together are famously funky.

Zappos’ Tony Hsieh stairs lively

“Our number-one priority is association culture,” pronounced Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. “And a whole faith is that if we get a enlightenment right, afterwards many of a other things will be a healthy by-product of that.

“So we inspire a employees to indeed correlate as many as possible, both inside and outward of a office. That’s tough to do from a telecommuting position.”

When Yahoo’s new CEO, Marissa Mayer’s bombshell was leaked final Feb that she was finale telecommuting as partial of her turnaround plan for a bum tech giant, Zappo’s Hsieh publicly shielded her in a May 2013 Fortune article.

Hsieh believes that good ideas comes from those H2O cooler moments he calls “collisions.”

The company’s nearly-completed new domicile is all about engineering those artistic collisions, including by tying a series of ways into and out of a building.

Zach Ware oversaw a mutation of a aged City Hall formidable in downtown Las Vegas into Zappo’s campus.

“The normal bureau has anywhere from 150 to 200 block feet per person, when we mix all a space and order it by a series of employees,” Ware told Teichner. “When we open this building, we will be during roughly 90 block feet per person.”

Why?

“By minimizing a volume of space between dual people, we are maximizing a opportunities for them to bond with any other,” Ware said.

But sociologist Jennifer Glass thinks telecommuting is a future, generally deliberation investigate finished on a Millennial Generation: “They’ve grown adult with technology. They’re used to regulating it, and they design to use it in their job. They place a really high value on autonomy, and they wish a ability to telecommute.”

A good instance of what she considers a karma of a growth: Dr. Samir Shah. His employer, VRAD, already has over 400 radiologists to use a needs of 2,700 medical facilities.

“Just in a few years, we have turn a genuine choice for many of a tip graduates of a best training programs,” pronounced Dr. Shah, “and we are flooded with applications
because they all comprehend that this is a good choice for lifestyle and comprehend that it’s indeed a reduction stressful pursuit overall.”

Gallery: Zappos.com’s bureau of a future

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