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NewJeffCT

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67. Then, there should have been a minimum internet standard

Reply to Sen. Walter Sobchak (Reply #39)

Fri Mar 1, 2013, 09:33 AM

Mar 2013

in order to telecommute, no?

Before we moved last year, we lived in an upscale neighborhood in Connecticut and we had several people just on my small street of 12 homes that telecommuted for one of the big insurance companies in Hartford. They all had pretty high level jobs for the company as well, and they maintained these jobs for the 5 years we lived there. One person was in IT, another was an actuary, and one was, I think, an APRN. (Another woman was a lawyer, but she only worked part-time.) However, I think they all went into the office maybe once per week just to maintain the human contact... but, when the woman that was an actuary's husband's job transferred him to China, she just worked remotely from Hong Kong instead of suburban Connecticut.

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