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There are many interesting statistics about teleworkers. In a recent year, there were 45 million teleworkers in the United States, and more than 18% of employed adult Americans telework from home during business hours at least one day per month. Fifty-seven percent of HR professionals indicate that their organizations offer some form of telecommuting. The typical teleworker works an average of 5.5 days at home per month. The average commuting distance of a teleworker when he or she is not teleworking is 18 miles. Teleworkers save an average of 53 minutes commuting each day, saving them the equivalent of one extra day of work for every nine days of commuting. Thirty-three percent of Canadians would prefer to telework over a 10% wage increase, and 43% would change jobs to an employer allowing telework. Among 20 U.S. government agencies, the average per-user cost of setting up telecommuting is $1,920. Telecommuting saves 840 million gallons of fuel annually in the United States, and telecommuting saves the equivalent of 9 to 14 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year-the same amount of energy used by roughly 1 million United States households every year.

Question:

What are some aspects of our culture that have facilitated the advent of telecommuting?