English
Etymology
From tele- + commuting.
Noun
telecommuting (uncountable)
- The practice of using telecommunications technology to do one's work at a location remote from one's office, such as one's home, an Internet café, etc.
- Synonyms: working from home, teleworking, cybercommuting
- Hyponyms: working from home, WFH
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Earth Codex entry:The homeworld and capital of humanity is entering a new golden age. The resource wealth of a dozen settled colonies and a hundred industrial outposts flows back to Earth, fueling great works of industry, commerce, and art. The great cities are greening as arcology skyscrapers and telecommuting allow more efficient use of land.
Translations
practice of using telecommunications technology to work from a remote location
- Arabic: عَمَل عَنْ بُعْدٍ m (ʕamal ʕan buʕdin), عَمَل مِنَ الْمَنْزِل m (ʕamal mina l-manzil)
- Armenian: հեռավար աշխատանք (heṙavar ašxatankʻ)
- Azerbaijani: uzaqdan iş
- Bengali: বাড়ি থেকে কাজ (baṛi theke kaj)
- Bulgarian: ра́бота от вкъ́щи f (rábota ot vkǎ́šti), дистанцио́нна ра́бота f (distanciónna rábota)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 遠程工作 / 远程工作 (yuǎnchéng gōngzuò)
- Czech: práce na dálku f
- Danish: distancearbejde c
- Dutch: telewerk (nl) n
- Esperanto: telelaborado, fora laborado
- Estonian: kaugtöö (et)
- Finnish: etätyö (fi)
- French: télétravail (fr) m, travail à distance m
- Galician: teletraballo m
- Georgian: სახლიდან მუშაობა (saxlidan mušaoba), დისტანციური მუშაობა (disṭanciuri mušaoba)
- German: Telearbeit (de) f, Homeoffice (de) n , Heimarbeit f
- Greek: τηλεργασία (el) f (tilergasía)
- Hungarian: távmunka (hu)
- Icelandic: fjarvinna f
- Indonesian: kerja jarak jauh
- Italian: telelavoro (it) m, smart working m, lavoro agile m
- Japanese: テレワーク (ja) (terewāku), 在宅勤務 (ja) (ざいたくきんむ, zaitaku kinmu), 在宅ワーク (ざいたくワーク, zaitaku wāku), リモートワーク (ja) (rimōto wāku)
- Korean: 재택근무(在宅勤務) (jaetaekgeunmu), 텔레워크 (tellewokeu), 리모트 워크 (rimoteu wokeu)
- Macedonian: работа на далечина f (rabota na dalečina)
- Malay: kerja jarak jauh
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fjernarbeid n, hjemmearbeid n
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: دورْکاری (fa) (durkâri)
- Polish: praca zdalna f, telepraca (pl) f
- Portuguese: teletrabalho (pt) m
- Romanian: muncă de acasă f, telemuncă f
- Russian: удалённая рабо́та f (udaljónnaja rabóta), удалёнка (ru) f (udaljónka) (colloquial), дистанцио́нная рабо́та f (distanciónnaja rabóta), дистанцио́нка (ru) f (distanciónka) (colloquial), онла́йн-рабо́та f (onlájn-rabóta), телерабо́та f (telerabóta), рабо́та на дому́ f (rabóta na domú), рабо́та из до́ма f (rabóta iz dóma), рабо́та до́ма f (rabóta dóma)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: рад на даљину m
- Roman: rad na daljinu m
- Slovak: práca na diaľku f
- Slovene: delo na daljavo n
- Spanish: teletrabajo (es) m
- Swedish: distansarbete (sv) n
- Turkish: evden çalışma, uzaktan çalışma
- Ukrainian: відда́лена робо́та f (viddálena robóta), дистанці́йна робо́та f (dystancíjna robóta), робо́та вдо́ма f (robóta vdóma), робо́та з до́му f (robóta z dómu), телеробо́та f (telerobóta)
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Verb
telecommuting
- present participle and gerund of telecommute