Managing Employees in the Digital City

In his 2005 book, The Digital City: The American Metropolis and Information Technology, Michel S. Laguerre devotes an entire chapter to teleworkers and telemanagers. On page 91, he states, "It is not simply enough to learn how to manage at a distance, it is also important to learn how to coordinate the labor produced at the workplace with the labor produced elsewhere."

This is certainly a struggle that my supervisor faces as he supervises one employee telecommuting from eastern Washington and the rest of the staff who work within our office in Olympia.