Telecommuting Can Make the Office Lonely

If managers have had doubts about telecommuting, they have centered on whether people working from home will be as productive as they are in the office and if some form of monitoring is necessary, said Kevin W. Rockmann, an associate management professor at George Mason University.

But new research by Professor Rockmann and Michael G. Pratt, a management professor at Boston College, suggests that concerns about off-site work should be turned in an entirely different direction: toward the people who remain in the office.