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Title: The Work From Home Debate And The U.S. Patent Office Telecommuting Debacle

*Author:* Adam Wren

*Source: *Forbes

*Date:* Oct 21, 2014

*Summary: *Is remote working no longer working?

Based on recent news stories chronicling major corporations such as Yahoo http://www.forbes.com/companies/yahoo/ YHOO +4.53% http://www.forbes.com/companies/yahoo/! ditching their telecommuting policies, the answer is no—not at all.

The remote-working-isn’t-working crowd seemed to gain more steam in August, when a House of Representatives committee launched an investigation http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/08/19/house-committee-launches-probe-of-uspto-telework-program/ into the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) telecommuting policies and found widespread abuse, including over-reporting of hours worked by the agency’s remote workers.

*Link: *http://onforb.es/1xalJ6U

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