Your are absolutely wright. Telecommuting should not be the rave for the future, but, should be common place today. Effective managers are more concerned with what you accomplish, not where the work is accomplished. I believe a lot of managers are afraid that they might not be needed if telecommuting is a success. And in some cases they are wright for companies that are really top heavy.

Telecommuting actually provides more benefits than you have described. For our country, if telecommuting was done on a larger scale, the amount of gasoline consumed would go down drastically meaning less dependence on foreign oil. I'm sure alot of our money to buy oil from Saudi Arabia filters into the wrong hands and is being used against us over in Araq. So, in effect we as a nation are sponsoring the folks that we are fighting against. The CEO's of large companies could reduce their overhead with regards to less management, reduction in building expense(employees could share cubicles when coming to the office). I don't think there is a valid excuse for not allowing people who can telecommute(meaning connectivity via the computer) to telecommute. I really think the Federal Government could give out incentives to private companies through grants and tax reductions for companies that allow a certain percentage of their employees to telecommute. I really believe that most private companies would change their tune about telecommuting "in a heartbeat" if the Federal Government would do such a thing. That's why I think our country is really not serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil.