How to Use telecommute in a Sentence

telecommute

verb
Definition of telecommutenext
  • The company now allows some of its employees to telecommute.
  • Estimates are of how many have been forced to telecommute over the last three months are all over the map.
    — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 12 June 2020
  • But such measures may be overkill if most workers want to telecommute.
    — Kiera Feldman Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2021
  • Both towns are offering to pay up to 50% of the rent of anyone who decides to move and telecommute on a long-term basis.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 15 May 2021
  • The workers in many of the industries hit hardest are not people who can telecommute and put in hours from home.
    — Mark Engler, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2020
  • But that will likely change as many of those workers begin to telecommute.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Her husband took a job in Boston and will telecommute from the far suburbs of rural New Hampshire.
    — Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2020
  • For his part, Shelby, who lives in Tigard, will not be making the drive to Salem on Monday, opting to telecommute instead.
    — Anna Marum, OregonLive.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Between the returning workers and those who are able to telecommute, most of Boeing’s employees in the state will be back to work.
    — Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Those with college degrees were more likely to telecommute.
    — Tami Luhby, CNN, 14 May 2020
  • Some workers have returned to downtown, but most continue to telecommute and may not work in offices again for months.
    — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Many employers are allowing staff to telecommute and work from anywhere, which wasn’t always the case.
    — Anthony Derosa, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2020
  • These jobs had the advantage of being portable, but the world to which the exiles could telecommute was becoming a mirage.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2022
  • And Gradisar wants to make sure high-speed internet is available for the growing number of people who telecommute.
    — Anna Staver, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2019
  • People who telecommute do wear pants, though casual Friday is kind of a weeklong event.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The broader reality, though, is that many of those who telecommute across state lines will face conflict and confusion.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 27 June 2020
  • Residents were advised to try to telecommute or carpool.
    — Mike Cruz, azcentral, 15 June 2019
  • Some people have also adopted RVs as home offices or makeshift studying spaces as people telecommute to work and school, Mr. Swartz said.
    — Matt Grossman, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2020
  • These workers can telecommute during the self-quarantine period but cannot return to the office.
    — Geoff Whitmore, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • But even with these victories, Larian is not sold on a future in which all employees telecommute.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2021
  • Thoma said the strain of the pandemic has been especially difficult for employees who must work on the hospital floor and can’t telecommute.
    — oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2020
  • When shops and restaurants shuttered at the start of the pandemic, causing widespread layoffs elsewhere, most residents were able to telecommute.
    — Washington Post, 28 May 2021
  • Some firms have talked about allowing employees to telecommute several days a week, which could ease the traffic burden in job centers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
  • The Bay Area has dropped a plan to require office workers to telecommute permanently, a sign that there are limits to how much people will want to work from home once the Covid-19 pandemic passes.
    — NBC News, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Many workers would like to continue to telecommute post-pandemic.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2022
  • While many businesses began asking workers to telecommute by the middle of March, Ohio's stay-at-home order was issued until March 23.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Baker’s bill would give employers a tax break to encourage more employees to telecommute.
    — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019
  • Transportation officials are urging commuters to telecommute, shift their schedules, walk, bike, take the bus or the train, carpool or try the water taxi — anything but drive into work alone.
    — David Gutman, The Seattle Times, 13 Jan. 2019
  • There is also a work-from-home feature which lines up jobs for candidates who want to telecommute, something that promises to be bigger following the pandemic.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 19 June 2020
  • Officials are urging commuters to telecommute or adjust work around the eclipse and festivities.
    — Ashley May, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2017

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