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Health & Fitness

RedGate Seems to be Prospering. Thank Telecommuting.

Telecommuting is allowing more people to play golf on weekdays—a plus for RedGate Golf Course and community green space.

One of the benefits of telecommuting is that more people are free to golf.

Weekdays, Monday through Thursday this year, in February and thus far in March, for example, when the temperature is over 45 degrees, you will find and nearby Montgomery County courses busy and packed some days, by 1 p.m.

This increased business is due in part to the flexibility of companies and the government, and their desire to reduce the cost of providing office space to employees. Working at home allows golfers to slip out to play a few holes on a nice day. This helps to keep remaining green space in Rockville green in our increasingly high-density community—an unanticipated benefit of telecommunting.

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