telecommute
Americanverb (used without object)
Usage
What does telecommute mean? Telecommute means to work from home or another remote location, especially by keeping in contact with coworkers through various forms of digital communication. To commute means to make a regular trip. Most commonly, it refers to traveling to work and back each day. When people telecommute, they don’t go to a workplace but instead usually rely on the internet to communicate and send documents. Example: The company allows some of its employees to telecommute when they have personal appointments during the day.
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Present
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telecommutesimple
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telecommutessimple
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have telecommutedperfect
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has telecommutedperfect
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am telecommutingprogressive
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are telecommutingprogressive
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is telecommutingprogressive
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have been telecommutingperfect progressive
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has been telecommutingperfect progressive
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telecommutedsimple
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had telecommutedperfect
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was telecommutingprogressive
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were telecommutingprogressive
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had been telecommutingperfect progressive
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Etymology
Origin of telecommute
Example Sentences
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According to the report, Smith never submitted an application to request to telecommute from Florida before leaving WSDOT.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
Housing in the county is “affordable in comparison to Bay Area rates,” Barajas said, and people can live there and either commute or telecommute to Bay Area jobs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
The stark differences are the result of governments' varying approaches to pandemic restrictions, cities' structures of downtown business centers, and workers' ability to telecommute, Pishue said.
From Reuters ● Dec. 7, 2021
When shops and restaurants shuttered at the start of the pandemic, causing widespread layoffs elsewhere, most residents were able to telecommute.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2021
Data from researchers at Harvard’s Opportunity Insights project suggests that workers who make more than $60,000 a year are staying white-collar: They can telecommute, and they’re almost back to full employment.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2020
Tyler lives in Girdwood and occasionally telecommutes himself on those days, saving an hour-plus on the round-trip drive to Anchorage.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
Hunched over his computer at a coffee shop in Harrisburg, Greg Beeman, 42, who telecommutes to his job at Nyack College in New York, said America’s greatness derived from its willingness to lead.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2014
Earlier this year, a poll from Ipsos/Reuters found that about one in five workers around the globe telecommutes frequently—a practice especially common in the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia.
From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2012
Susan and Gil Harper from Cushing, Me. — she a lawyer who telecommutes to New York, he a furniture maker — said they had limited their political involvement to voting.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2010
Given the choice of working where they please, nearly half the staff telecommutes either from home or from the road, keeping in touch by pager, cellular phone, fax, computer and modem.
From Time Magazine Archive
The survey found that nearly 20% of California adults lived in households in which at least one person had telecommuted or worked from home five days or more in the previous week.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2022
Starting in 2005, he lived in Callao, on Virginia’s Northern Neck, and telecommuted with the Arlington, Va., firm Fletcher, Heald and Hildreth before retiring in 2014.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2021
I telecommuted for over 10 years until my retirement.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2020
Between 2005 and 2015, employees who telecommuted rose by 115 percent, the bureau reported.
From The Verge ● Apr. 7, 2020
They have worked non-traditional hours, telecommuted, carpooled, biked and walked.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2018
Yet in the U.S., employees do not appear to be telecommuting at greater rates, according to experts and data.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026
A millions-strong diaspora is studying, telecommuting and retiring overseas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
The city is about to issue a telecommuting policy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
Asian Americans are still most likely to be in remote work, with about half of Asian American workers in the state telecommuting at least once a week.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2023
This image is strikingly different from the new reality of interconnected, yet decentralized, individual activities going well beyond telecommuting.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
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