Nude Teleworking Policy

In the Washington Post Magazine Sunday, humor columnist Gene Weingarten shared his thoughts on recent research showing that 10 percent of teleworkers in the United States work in the nude. Weingarten conducted his own "Federal Study on the Policy of Working Naked," and came up with some conclusions that were decidedly different than those in the teleworking policy recently issued by the General Services Administration. Some of the columnist's findings:

• "Telecommuting naked can be an important weight-loss aid. Noshing is nearly impossible. This is because all reflective surfaces prove dispiriting, in particular the stainless steel refrigerator door."
• "The state of working naked is so foreign that one is constantly aware of it, and of its silliness and inappropriateness. This can be a crippling awareness, particularly when someone telephones. It is no problem with a call from one's wife, but it does become a problem with a call from one's daughter, who will want to know why one is giggling. It is bad to lie to one's daughter, but sometimes it is imperative. Also, giggling produces jiggling, which is not good."
• "Smoking a cigar is a bad idea."

--Daniel Pulliam