More than 40 percent of HR professionals would take a pay cut in order to telecommute, with some of them saying they'd trade more than 10 percent of their pay for the right to work remotely, according to a survey on Compensation.BLR.com and HR.BLR.com.
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Thirty percent of respondents said they'd like to telecommute but they wouldn't take a pay cut. Seventeen percent said that with their job duties, they could never telecommute. Just 8 percent of respondents said they have no desire to telecommute.
The survey included more than 200 respondents.