Monday, March 10, 2014

ANOTHER MAPLEWOOD MAN CENTER OF NATIONAL STORY

Kipp Jarecke-Cheng. Photo: NY Times
Friday's New York Times had a great story on telecommuting, which used our own Kipp Jarecke-Cheng as the poster boy for working from home.

The story states:



Kipp Jarecke-Cheng fits right into the typical teleworker profile. He is 44, and for the last year he has been director of global public relations and communications for Nurun, a design and technology consulting company based in Montreal. At his old job, he commuted about 45 minutes from his home in Maplewood, N.J., to a Manhattan office, but now he works from home.
He was offered other more traditional jobs, he said, but chose to telecommute to be around his family more.
“In my previous jobs, I left for work before my son was awake in the morning and got home when he was getting ready for bed,” he said.
It took some time to get used to working at home, he said. Like many teleworkers, he found that being away from his colleagues and subordinates made communication more difficult, at least initially.

Read the rest HERE.

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