You can go home again: successful telecommuting for the technical communicator

Author

Schmidt, Bonnie Langford

Author_Institution

Div. of Ind. Stand. Server, Compaq Comput. Corp., Houston, TX, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

37

Abstract

With the right people and properly set expectations, technical communications projects completed by telecommuters are done as well as, if not better than, projects completed by traditional office-based employees. Telecommuting requires ground rules and standards, but provides numerous benefits for employees and employers. Technical communications is an ideal career for telecommuting because it is knowledge-based, and many of the skills required to succeed at telecommuting are also those required for successful technical communications

Keywords

home working; personnel; technical presentation; career; employees; employers; office-based employees; standards; technical communication; telecommuting; Communication industry; Communication standards; Computer industry; Employee rights; Engineering profession; Professional communication; Project management; Telecommunication computing; Telecommunication standards; Teleworking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Professional Communication Conference, 2000. Proceedings of 2000 Joint IEEE International and 18th Annual Conference on Computer Documentation (IPCC/SIGDOC 2000)

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6431-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPCC.2000.887258

Filename

887258