Critical Reasoning

Allowing employees to work remotely is widely accepted as environmentally friendly and cost-saving as compared to requiring employees to work on site during normal business hours. Moreover, the current work-from-home initiative already in effect at Company X demonstrates that employees are equally productive whether working on-site or remotely. The CEO at Company X therefore recommends that the company expand the current initiative to reach a target of 40 percent of all employees working remotely within 2 years.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the reasoning behind expanding the current initiative at Company X?


(A) Participation in the current initiative has been completely voluntary, and employee participation has ranged from 10 percent in some divisions of the company to 50 percent in others.

(B) Eligibility for the current initiative has been restricted to the 20 percent of employees whose jobs do not require participation in regular on-site planning sessions.

(C) Employees who currently work remotely have had a significant amount of difficulty using the company's electronic network primarily because not enough employees work remotely to justify upgrading the system.

(D) Some of the employees who are able to work remotely are the very employees who, if working on site, would require costly accommodations.

(E) Many employees who choose to work remotely also support other environmentally-friendly initiatives.