Mariposa IS a nice place, close to Yos etc, been through there many times myself. But good lord, he works for CISCO!! If anyone should be able to telecommute 3 days a week it should be this guy...a knowledge worker for the biggest data switch/router manufacturer in the world. WTF is wrong with these people?
yea i have to agree with you. cisco has made their routers and switchs almost completely configurable remotely. for security reasons no less.
Cisco is reputed to be very telecommuter-friendly, both because it leads the industry in this technology, but also because of its location-- lots of its workers live a good distance from the high-priced San Jose area.

But the article says this guy is an electrical engineer (not IT engineer), so maybe he's soldering, making cables, testing components, or whatever an electrical engineer does at a company like Cisco.

Seems to me that either this guy really loves to drive a lot, or he has no choice due to the nature of his job.