Telecommuting (also known as working from home, or e-commuting) is a work arrangement in which the employee works outside the office, often working from home or a location close to home (including coffee shops, libraries, and various other venues).

远程办公(也称为在家办公或电子通勤)是指员工在办公室外工作的一种工作安排，通常在家或离家近的地方(包括咖啡店、图书馆和各种其他场所)工作。

Tens of millions of jobs at all points of the income and skill spectrum are of course not suited to remote work.

有数以千万计的各种收入各种技能的职位都不适合远程工作。

►Doctors, dentists, and countless other healthcare workers of the world will always need to be hands-on with patients, just as：

医生、牙医、以及世界上无数的其他各种医疗工作者总是需要临床作业;诸如：

►construction workers need to be on building sites

建筑工得在工地上

►scientists need to be in labs

科学家得在实验室里

►wait staff need to be in restaurants

服务生得在餐馆里

►judges need to be in court

法官要在法院里

►hospitality employees need to be in hotels

酒店业从业者得出现在酒店里

More freedom

更自由

Telecommuting allows a worker greater freedom regarding her or his work hours and work location. It gives the employee more flexibility to balance work and personal obligations.

远程办公使得工人在工作时间和工作地点两方面有着更大的自由。员工可以更灵活地平衡工作和个人事务。

Productivity

高效

Often, working from home can make you more productive, because you do not have the distractions of office space. Of course, this is not necessarily true if you can be easily distracted by home appliances such as washing machines that make considerable noise, or if you are someone that actually needs supervision from your boss to concentrate on your work. Productivity sometimes entails a division of your residence where a space away from comfortable couches, beds, TVs should be designated.

在家工作通常可以让你更有效率，因为没有办公空间的干扰。当然，如果你很容易被诸如发出噪音的洗衣机之类的家用电器分心，或者你是一个真正需要老板监督才能专心工作的人，那么你在家工作的效率不一定会高。想要在家高效工作有时需要划分你的住所——在其中划出一个远离舒适的沙发、床、电视的空间(用来工作)。