Although telecommuting has only risen in popularity in the last 15 years, with nine million people working from \u201chome\u201d at least half of the time as of 2017, the popularity of the term itself has taken a dip. A Google search for \u201cremote work\u201d yields almost 30 times as many results as a search for \u201ctelecommuting.\u201d<\/p>\n
As antiquated as \u201ctelecommuting\u201d may sound compared to<\/span> its more modern, popular cousin, \u201cremote work,\u201d the two terms aren\u2019t interchangeable. There are a few key differences in meaning that both employers and job seekers should know.<\/p>\n While remote work means you can truly work from anywhere, telecommuting jobs often include restrictions on where you can be based geographically. Luckily, our friends at PowerToFly<\/span><\/a><\/u> wrote an article explaining the two terms and breaking down all the nuances, so the next time you\u2019re searching your ideal remote gig, you\u2019ll know exactly what you\u2019re getting yourself into.<\/p>\n Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although telecommuting has only risen in popularity in the last 15 years, with nine million people working from \u201chome\u201d at least half of the time as of 2017, the popularity of the term itself has taken a dip. A Google search for \u201cremote work\u201d yields almost 30 times as many results as a search for … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65],"tags":[308,309,307,306],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5953,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions\/5953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}