Nilles talks about rocket science, the growth of telecommuting and major challenges facing that community Father of telecommuting Jack Nilles says security, managing remote workers remain big hurdles.

On July 17, 1963, Jack Nilles sat for hours in the corridors of the Pentagon, drinking cup after cup of sludgy coffee as he waited for a meeting that would never happen. Nilles, a rocket scientist ...

In the nineteen-sixties, Jack Nilles, a physicist turned engineer, built long-range communications systems at the U.S. Air Force’s Aerial Reconnaissance Laboratory, near Dayton, Ohio. Later, at ...

That will come as welcome and overdue news to Jack Nilles, known as the Father of Telecommuting. Born 1932 in Evanston, Illinois, USA, ...

Jack Nilles, while working as a physicist in the early 1970s, coined the phrase "telecommuting." In 1979, IBM became the first corporate experimenter with remote work.

Not many people can claim to have been telecommuting for as long as Jack Nilles has been untethered from office life. MORE ON CIO.com Telecommuting Support: Five Tips to Enhance Your Network ...

The term “telecommuting,” another way to say “remote work,” was coined in 1972 by Jack Nilles, a NASA engineer working remotely on a complex communication problem.

"The most fundamental equipment a telecommuter needs is a telephone," Jack Nilles, president of JALA International, a telework consulting group in Los Angeles, told Government Executive in 1997.

Remote work has its origins in tech (you could argue). Jack Nilles, while working as a physicist in the early 1970s, coined the phrase "telecommuting." In 1979, IBM became the first corporate ...