the chief happiness officer blog has a post on a study out Penn State of showing telecommuting is good for both employee and employer.

the study was a review of 46 studies including 13k employees. the blog post has a fantastic summary of the main points so i won’t steal his thunder.

i need to read the full study but the most interesting part caught by the summary IMO is working 1-2 days a week outside the office doesn’t hurt the co-worker/manager relationships although 3 days away from the office has a negative effect on office relationships. wow. an extra 8 hours and damage is done.

the full report is here (pdf)