 |  Interactions 2 Reading, 4/e Elaine Kirn
Pamela Hartmann
Telecommuting| Female Voice 1: It is very frustrating to sit and wait.Male Voice 1: Everything comes to a complete stop.Female Voice 1: You can't move.Male Voice 1: Where is all this traffic coming from?Announcer: It's early and it's dark when David Carroll heads for work. It's just after six, in fact, but fact is, he's not about to trade a later commute for a few more hours of sleep.David: Nothing's more frustrating for me than to just sit in traffic and be sitting there doing nothing, and that really bugs me.Announcer: So instead, he's changed his life. Used to take him an hour or more to go from his home in Carlsbad to work in the UTC area. But his company, American Express Tax and Business, allows flexible work hours. People can come in at different times and they get to leave at different times.David: I'd much rather get up earlier, get to work early, leave work early, and get home without any type of traffic.Announcer: Better yet, how about no traffic at all?Man 1: It's great. It's really been a godsend for me. I love it.Announcer: What Marty Barrazo's in love with is the community computer center, in Oceanside. He's an account manager for an Internet company. Being able to work here, he says, saves him about three hours of traveling on the road. And he's not the only one not having to hassle the freeway.Man 2: In our first year and a half, we able to save something in the neighborhood of over 62,000 miles on the road.Announcer: Though here for a year and a half, the comment heard around here most often is, “I didn't know you guys were here.” For telecommuters like Marty Barrazo, it's ideal.Marty: These are high-speed lines and state of the art computers; sometimes they're better than you can get in a business office.Announcer: And, he says, not being on the road all day long, means he's a lot less grumpy when he gets home. |
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