telecommutingn.
/ˌtɛlᵻkəˈmjuːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌtɛləkəˈmjudɪŋ/, /ˈtɛləkəˌmjudɪŋ/ The action or fact of working remotely, esp. from home, using telecommunications technology.
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1972 Economist 22 Jan. p. xxxiii Those who are made newly mobile by the possibility of telecommuting.
1982 N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Nov. 133 A situation known as ‘telecommuting’ or, more cozily, the ‘electronic cottage’.
2001 B. Lietaer Future of Money 83 London has been shrinking for almost a century now, and telecommuting gave the final push to the exodus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
telecommutingadj.
/ˌtɛlᵻkəˈmjuːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌtɛləkəˈmjudɪŋ/, /ˈtɛləkəˌmjudɪŋ/ Designating a person who works remotely, esp. from home, using telecommunications technology.
ΚΠ
1976 Economist 25 Dec. 56/1 Small ones [sc. businesses], employing various piecework-earning telecommuting housewives in their own homes.
1991 Boston June 121/1 Supervisors..had received special training in working with telecommuting employees.
2013 Toronto Star (Nexis) 4 Mar. a13 Yahoo Inc.'s decision to haul its telecommuting workers out of their home offices and back into the communal workplace is a shock to the system.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1972
adj.1976