telecommuting
/ˈtɛləkəˌmjuːtɪŋ/
telecommuting means the practice of using telecommunications technology to do one's work at a location remote from one's office, such as one's home, an Internet café, etc. It carries an Arena rating of 1240, earned across 13 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, telecommuting ranks #1,114 of 17,116 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #6,858 of 17,137 for Most Exacting Words, #7,471 of 17,130 for Most Ingenious Words, #10,360 of 17,115 for Most Vivid Words.
telecommuting is pronounced /ˈtɛləkəˌmjuːtɪŋ/.
Why “telecommuting” is a great word
The practice of performing one’s office work from a remote location by means of telecommunications technology, from tele- ("at a distance") + commuting ("traveling to work"), implying the replacement of physical travel with electronic communication and first recorded in 1970–75. Unlike "telework," which often denotes any remote technological labor, or "remote work," which emphasizes location independence, telecommuting is defined by its specific substitution of a physical journey. It is the coffee machine gurgling in one's own kitchen while a screen flickers to life, the pajama bottoms hidden beneath a dress shirt's professional frame, the particular silence of a house that holds a worker who is neither fully present nor quite gone—the commute collapsed into a gesture, and the threshold between domestic and professional life eroded to a matter of which window is open on which machine.
noun
- The practice of using telecommunications technology to do one's work at a location remote from one's office, such as one's home, an Internet café, etc.
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