"You Will": Workers Wary About Working from Home
Remember those "You Will" commercials when a narrator said that one day we'd all be able to check our laptops on the beach or whatever? (A friend of mine would always intone this whenever I took out my cellphone.) Now, we will and we do. However, a new study says that most workers don't choose to telecommute, worrying the lack of face time in the office will hurt their career and not get them noticed by the boss. (They may be right—unless they're bloggers measured by pageviews!) "Nearly half of office workers are able to telecommute, but less than a third actually do," says U.S. News. Seriously, though, I've never stopped laughing about those 1993 AT&T ads: