单项选择题
Working at home in your nightclothes while saving hundreds of dollars may sound too goodto be true, but it isn’t. More and more employees are telecommuting, doing their job at home oranother remote site.
"It’s a trend that’s here now and you’re going to see a lot more telecommuting because people don’t have to put up with commuting (来回上下班). They want more work/life balance, theywant less stress in their lives and companies want to drive costs after their bottom lines," says JohnEdwards, President of the International Telework Association and Council.
However, Edwards says, "The biggest problem at the moment is dealing with middle managementwho is uncomfortable with management style focusing on results. They are used to the line ofsight management style. But they have to change to more results-oriented management style whichcan often be slightly opposite, so they feel uncomfortable with that."
Edwards says telecommuting kills distance—and a lot of face to face meetings are replacedby teleconferences. "Distance does not exist anymore. It’s the death of distance, if you like. Sonow it’s possible to have more invisible teams so that the necessity to have the old bricks andwalls existing is beginning to disappear.\
A.employees hate distance between each other
B.there should be no distance between employers and employees
C.the disappearance of distance improves efficiency
D.telecommuting changes ways of communication