Legalities of Telecommuting —Fiorenza

Telecommuting Concerns

Problems arise when employers experiment with home-based employment without first analyzing the threshold issues involved with the arrangement. Here are some of the primary areas of concern.

Measuring and monitoring performance. What methods will be used to evaluate the home-based employee? Are “attendance” measures even relevant? When problems arise, how will coaching, discipline and documentation measures be undertaken, so that all of the traditional human resource “progressive discipline” techniques are undertaken and documented?