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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Origin of telecommute
Example Sentences
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Speaking to Seacrest, Bass hit similar messaging, urging downtown workers to telecommute if they could, and talked about the time it may take to repair the overpass damaged by fire Saturday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
Many workers who could telecommute abandoned crowded cities and counties for suburban or rural areas when covid struck, causing demographers and businesses to wonder whether the movement signified a permanent shift.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023
Since I live alone and telecommute, I have an office set up in the living room.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 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
To that point, many workers Facebook hired for Seattle-area positions during the pandemic were allowed to telecommute from up to four hours away from the city — and they’ll be able to keep doing that.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2021
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
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
Dr. Hazard moved to Savannah from Reston, Va., in 2003 and telecommuted.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 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
Once bustling with city employees, the Civic Center mall has been made desolate by telecommuting options and online access to municipal departments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
The state’s telecommuting workers are concentrated in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area, tracking with the concentration of tech companies in the state.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2023
Today's telecommuting is only a beginning when we think of the numbers of people involved and the still limited scope of their involvement.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
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