Word of the Day: telecommute
Publicat de burdujan pe 09/04/2009
• \TEL-ih-kuh-myoot\ • verb
: to work at home by the use of an electronic linkup with a central office
: lucru la distanţă, a lucra acasă folosind conexiunea electronică cu oficiul central
Example sentence:
Marie recently installed a high-speed computer line in her home so she could telecommute two days a week.
Maria a instalat recent un computer cu o linie de mare viteză în casă, astfel încât ar putea să ţină legătura cu oficiu două zile pe săptămână.
Telecommute derives from the prefix tele-, a descendant of the Greek word tēle, meaning far off, and the verb commute, which arose from Latin commutare, meaning to change or to exchange. The practice of working at home and interfacing with the office electronically has only recently become commonplace, but the word telecommute has been around since the mid-1970s.
Its earliest documented use can be found in a January 1974 article in The Economist that predicted,
“As there is no logical reason why the cost of telecommunication should vary with distance, quite a lot of people by the late 1980s will telecommute daily to their London offices while living on a Pacific island if they want to.”
“Deoarece nu există un motiv logic de ce costul telecomuncaţiei trebuie să diferenţieze în dependenţă de distanţă, destul de multă lume spre sfârşitul anilor 80′, va lucra la distanţă ţinând legătura cu oficiile din Londra, aflându-se pe insulele oceanului Pacific.”
