New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) continue to influence our lives on the professional, economic, social and family levels. As a consequence, we are faced with new values, new relations and new behaviours which we have to adopt or to adapt to.

One of the innovations brought by these technologies -and in front of which we are still perplexed and hesitant- is telecommuting or distance work which is presented as a means to reduce costs and to increase productivity.

The fundamental characteristics of telecommuting are:
a- The place of work is no longer the same, it is distance work.
b- There is a new form of organization of work.
c- The interactions between the employee and the employer are achieved primarily thanks to the means of telecommunications.

All experiments in this field show that telecommuting has many advantages and opens new prospects for a better productivity, a better life for the individual and the family. Yet, experts point out that there are still a few drawbacks.

I- Advantages:

a- Advantages from the point of view of the telecommuter:

 decrease of stress and increase of effectiveness.

 better integration of family life and professional life: telecommuters can better reconcile employment and family life.

 fewer absences due to family urgencies, mainly for telecommuters with children.

 reduction of the time wasted in transportation especially in public means of transport. Employees have much more spare time which they could devote to para professional activities (training, studies...) or to valorising leisure activities.

 decrease of the expenses related to transport, clothing and meals taken outside, thus improvement of the purchasing power and the standard of life.

 increase of autonomy and responsibility.

b- Advantages from the point of view of the employer:

 increase of productivity.

 possibility of recruitment of high quality employees.

 reduction of space costs.

 reduction of costs related to absences and delays.

c- Advantages from the point of view of the community:

 decrease of unemployment rates in less industrialized areas through maintaining people in their regions.

 reduction of pollution due to road traffic.

 reduction of traffic jam and road accidents.

 increase of population stability.

 reduction of costs of stress-related diseases.

II- Disadvantages:

a- Disadvantages from the point of view of the telecommuter:

 possibility of exposure to loneliness.

 fear of being cut from professional environment (office, colleagues