Mark Ontkush has written another great article on the extended beauties of Telecommuting. One of my UK colleagues lives in Paris as her own choice - if she needs to get to London for an occassional meeting then a ferry ride or jumping on the Eurostar is an option (OK not 100% green but the idea of "not being in the office" not necessarily equaling "working from home" is well made). She recently took up a friends offer to house sit in Nice for two months - no one would have noticed where she was.Read Mark's full blog entry
ecoIron - All these whirring boxes.: Extreme Telecommuting - It's Not What Dad Did
Here's the original CNN Money article
It smacks of a similar theme championed by Tim Ferriss in his book "The four hour work week". Tim runs his own company from wherever he happens to be in the world - outsourcing personal tasks where he can and cutting down on the daily office grind tasks.
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