Only time will tell. However, I find it really hard to imagine that companies are going to be able to put the telecommuting genie back in the bottle. Videoconferencing and other technologies are ...

But to the millions watching on television, it was a fanciful genie bottle that evoked tales of magic. The prop was the centerpiece of the sitcom “I Dream of Jeannie,” which ran from 1965 to 1970.