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Looks like more and more workers are pushing for the chance to telecommute.

From Employers pull out the stops to woo workers:

With the unemployment rate hovering below 5 percent nationally and at close to 4 percent in the Lower Hudson Valley, workers are finding they’re once again in the driver’s seat when it comes to negotiating salaries and other job perks.

Employers in turn are finding inventive ways to remain competitive in enticing the best and the brightest, all the while keeping an eye on the bottom line.

To that end, fewer companies are offering fully paid health care or defined-benefit retirement programs, the kind that have some old-line manufacturers, such as auto-giant General Motors Corp., scrambling to find ways to keep them funded.

Employers are offering a range of programs or benefits that make the workplace or the time employees invest in their jobs more valuable, says John Challenger, chief executive at Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago-based employment-services firm.