telecommute

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The Word of the Day for January 14 is:

telecommute   \TEL-ih-kuh-myoot\   verb
      : to work at home by the use of an electronic linkup with a central office

Example sentence:
      When construction on the highway extended her drive to the office by 20 
minutes, Margaret made the decision to start telecommuting.

Did you know?
      "Telecommute" derives from the prefix "tele-," a descendant of the Greek 
"tele," meaning "far off," and the verb "commute," which arose from the Latin 
"commutare," meaning "to change" or "to exchange." The practice of working at 
home and interfacing with the office via modem, telephone, or another 
telecommunications device has only recently become commonplace, but the word 
"telecommute" has been around since the mid-1970s. Its earliest documented use 
can be found in a January 1974 article in _The Economist_ that predicted, "As 
there is no logical reason why the cost of telecommunication should vary with 
distance, quite a lot of people by the late 1980s will telecommute daily to 
their London offices while living on a Pacific island if they want to." 





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