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Could telecommuting be a career mistake?

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home as a consulting engineer for his employer in Provo, Utah, he was given 60-days notice in 2007 that he was going to be laid off. If you're starting a new line of work, or you're just starting your career, telecommuting will limit your ability to find a mentor, learn on-the-job, and develop relationships with your co-workers.

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Tim Rowe – Founder and CEO of CIC | Flexible Workspaces: Competing Globally

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You’ve taken it to an entirely new high, working around other people, incubation theories, mentoring theories, accelerator theories, fundings, exits, team rooms, the very start up to the very exit point overall. It actually started showing up around, I think, 2006, 2007, somewhere like that. Paradigm shifts have you seen?

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

Then the 2001 recession hit the Telecom and IT sector. I was laye doff in 2007 while attending an collage I had to take up two jobs to make ends meet which means that school was out of the schedule. And I do understand that money does not buy happiness, etc etc, but we do heroes, mentors and models of good behavior.

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