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November 2011
A Room of Their
Own for 2-Wheeled Commuters
New York Times
... on behavioral changes in tenants for instance,
if a tenant allows employees to telecommute or if a
landlord puts in a bike room that gets heavy use.
...
Telework
could cause employee exhaustion
FederalNewsRadio.com
By Julia Ziegler Employees with high levels of work-family
conflict can be negatively impacted by telework,
according to a new study. ...
Scientists prove
telecommuting is awesome
GigaOm
14, 2011, 6:03am PT 3 Comments You're a manager and you're
thinking of allowing your team to telecommute. The
reasons sound sensible enough: Anecdotal evidence suggests
remote work leads to happier more productive workers and
less environmental impact. ...
A One-Computer
Model?
Nextgov
So what does this mean for telework going forward?
Cindy Auten, general manager of Telework Exchange,
said Wednesday that some agencies are moving to a
"one-computer model," meaning they provide employees with a
laptop instead of multiple devices for
...
Gen Y Workers
Value Mobile Freedom, Social Media
Mobiledia
The young respondents in the "2011 Cisco Connected World
Technology" report cited the ability to telecommute,
choose their own mobile devices,
...
Study: IT's
Future Lies With Cloud Computing, Security and Mobile
PCWorld
A premium is also placed on receiving technical training and
being able to telecommute, with both categories being
important to 61 percent of workers.
...
5 Ways Office
Supplies are Becoming Greener
TMC Net
Along those lines, professional telecommuting jobs
are becoming more commonplace as work becomes more mobile.
Over the past four years, FlexJobs, an award-winning job
service for telecommuting and flexible schedule jobs,
has seen a 400 percent increase
...
October 2011
Telework
Pros vs. Cons
Nextgov
By Brittany Ballenstedt 11/01/11 01:15 pm ET The General
Services Administration on Monday announced a groundbreaking
new telework policy that presumes all GSA employees
are eligible to telework. And according to a new
report by the Merit Systems
Teleworking
has positive impact on workplace, says Merit Board survey
Fierce Government
A sizable minority of federal employees say telework
can have a negative impact on work unit dynamics, although
their numbers are surpassed by those who says it has a
positive or neutral impact, according to a newly released
survey from the Merit ...
GSA inaugurates
updated telework policy
GovExec.com
Berry noted that GSA has the highest percentage of
telecommuters of all federal agencies and that data from
the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey show that
...
What's the Green
Benefit of Telecommuting?
Small Business Trends
And keep in mind there are other non-green benefits that
come with telecommuting. For one, surveys repeatedly
find that telecommuting make employees happier by
providing them more work-life balance and less time on the
road. ...
Virtual
world goes north in search of Arctic chill
The Independent
Cooling equipment accounts for some 40 per cent of the
energy used in data centres, and with power consumption
running at 100 times that of a standard office
building, there's a constant battle to reduce that
percentage. The Arctic climate offers
...
How RBS built a
business case for virtual desktops to cut costs
ComputerWeekly.com
Diamond concludes that the company's plans to increase its
offshored back-office functions in India will be
helped by virtual desktops. "With the secure
container model, we can offshore within regulations.
Security will be less of a concern.
...
Should you let
employees work from home?
USA Today
You will have a happier, more loyal workforce if
telecommuting becomes part of your benefits package
people like it. Telecommuting boosts morale. You will
also likely have a more productive employee. Sure, I know
you fear that they will goof off if
...
Tips and tricks
to make the telecommute switch
Globe and Mail
For the past three weeks, we've been looking at the growing
adoption of telecommuting, or working from home. Even
though telecommuting still constitutes a relatively
tiny minority of employees in North America, the number is
growing fairly rapidly. ...
When roadwork can
do no more good, telework can be a solution
FCW.com
By Camille Tuutti The physical and financial limits of
building and maintaining roads provide a good argument for
telework, according to Virginia Transportation
Secretary Sean Connaughton. We don't have the money or the
physical ability to expand the
...
Flexitime and
flexispace: boon or bane?
gulfnews.com
By M. Sen | Gulf News Report As companies allowed their
workforce to telecommute partly or fully and replaced
the limitations of nine-to-five jobs with
...
Managers need to
unleash workers for successful
telework
FederalNewsRadio.com
By EMILY KOPP The benefits of telework are attracting
agency leaders and rank-and-file workers alike, but they
still have not broken through the final barrier: management
reluctance. "People enjoy telework. They enjoy the
freedom of it. ...
Mobile work is
about more than secure laptops
Nextgov
By Joseph Marks 10/18/2011 Concerns about workers
telecommuting with personal laptops and smartphones
don't end with those systems' comparatively lax security,
officials said Tuesday. There also are a host of policy
questions that need to be answered
...
Private Employers
Can Learn from Federal Government's Guide to Telework
Justice News Flash
Telework (also known as telecommuting or working
remotely) provides a way for employees to work from a
different location. The benefits include decreased real
estate costs for employers and increased flexibility for
employees. ...
Benefits of
working from home add up
Globe and Mail
Since we started this series on the benefits of
telecommuting the fancy name for working from home
we've received plenty of responses from people who are
fairly passionate about the topic. It appears that some
folks working in the office might
...
Feature: Die, VPN!
We're all "telecommuters" nowand IT must adjust
Ars Technica
By John C. Welch | Published October 13, 2011 10:49 AM Once
upon a time, "telecommuter" was easy to define: it
was anyone who wasn't working where everyone else was, but
who still needed all that network access. In general, the
setup was simple ...
How the Remote
Workforce Is Changing
Mashable
The US teleworking population in 2010 was estimated
at 26.2 million nearly 20% of the ... Telework
or remote work is one aspect of workplace flexibility.
...
Protecting your
company if you use telework
Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal
But telecommuting also comes with risks chief among
them, security issues and liability issues, on top of the
issues that naturally crop up when managing someone who
isn't physically in the same location as you. One recent
case, Sandberg v. ...
How to set up the
perfect teleworking environment
Australian Personal Computer
Teleworking (aka working from home) is increasing
fast as new technology and communications make it possible.
Here's how to make the most of it.
...
Training Is
Essential for Successful Telework Management
Chier Learning Officer
A June 2011 study based on data collected by the Dieringer
Research Group and nonprofit WorldatWork found that the
number of teleworkers full-time
...
Telework
Best Practices: Take a Lesson From USDA
Nextgov
But according to a new case study by the Telework
Exchange, there's one agency that's far ahead of the game
when it comes to telework implementation -- the
...
The Globe and
Mail
Globe and Mail
In this series, we're looking at the reasons for and against
allowing your employees to work from home also called
teleworking or telecommuting. We're also looking at
what tools exist to help businesses make sure they're
setting up the most efficient
...
Improve Your
Office with Technology, Telecommuting, and Snacks
Business Insider
Today is Improve Your Office Day, and a recent Staples.com
survey found that technology and telecommuting were
high on the wish list of improvements among employees. In
fact, this survey of 300 employees from companies big and
small, from all over ...
How to set up
your office network for
telecommuting
Techworld.com
By Paul Venezia | PC World | Published: 19:00, 02 October
2011 There comes a time in most businesses when
circumstances dictate that one or more users work from home
either full or part-time. In other cases, it may simply be
convenient for business ...
September 2011
Work-from-home
programs still elude smaller workplaces
Globe and Mail
In recent years, a number of companies have bought into the
concept of telecommuting basically, letting your
employees working without having to come into the office.
Cheap and ubiquitous hardware and software everything from
iPads to Skype have ...
Companies Embrace
Telecommuting As A Retention Tool
CNBC.com
Worl-Life Balance According to a June survey of 5300
employees by the online job site CareerBuilder, 10 percent
said they telecommute at least once a week, an
increase from 8 percent in 2007. Forrester Research recently
bolstered its 2009 projection
...
What
Telecommuting Can Do for Your Business
Telepresence Options
By Logan G. Harbaugh, PCWorld - Telecommuting, which
allows people to work collaboratively from different
locations, offers a wealth of opportunities for small
businesses, including cost savings and the ability to add
specialized temporary workers
...
Be the Boss: Make
Your To-Do List Work for You
Patch.com
Balancing work-life comes not from the hours, but
what you do with them. Strike it! I've figured it out. The
problem with trying to secure a work-life balance is
not how you spend your waking hours, but how you define
success. ...
Tech Tips For
Working Remotely
GeekSugar.com
According to a new study, telecommuting is on the
rise. In fact, 56 percent of decision makers at US companies
think that working from home makes employees more productive
and 53 percent of CFOs plan on increasing telecommuting
options at their ...
Telework
In Unusual Places
GovExec.com
But agencies like the Peace Corps are also jumping in and
touting the benefits of telework, particularly as
recent events like snowstorms, hurricanes and an
...
Productivity
Rising Among Employees Who Work from Home
BusinessNewsDaily
A survey from CareerBuilder found that 35 percent of those
telecommuting from home rather than visiting the
office work eight or more hours a day, up nearly 20
percentage points from four years ago. Rosemary Haefner,
vice president of human resources
...
12 Tips for
Making Your Telework Arrangement Succeed
Huffington Post (blog)
Of all the things that cause a telework arrangement
to fail, falling out of touch with the office may be the
most common problem. Here are 12 suggestions for staying in
touch, and saving that cherished remote work arrangement. 1.
...
Is Your Agency
Mobile Ready?
Nextgov
By Brittany Ballenstedt 09/14/11 11:44 am ET Agencies are
incorporating telework into their continuity of
operations plans, but many still have some work to do when
it comes to having the plans, tools and support necessary to
manage a mobile workforce. ...
Telework
is working in Georgia
TechJournal South
With tax revenues decreasing and government budgets
shrinking, the state of Georgia is focusing on a strategy
that reduces traffic demands while benefitting local
employers: telework. This week Georgia Governor
Nathan Deal and The Clean Air Campaign
...
Working From Home
Is Awesome! 3 Things To Consider
Business Insider
Working from home might seem like a dream and since many
companies are going the virtual route, more employees are
now expecting flexible work options such as
telecommuting and working virtually or from home.
According to a survey commissioned by
...
When Working
Remotely Doesn't Work Anymore
Business Insider
Telecommuting works just fine for a lot of people and
offers a lot of advantages, not just to the remote worker,
but to the employer as well. Tax Deductions Some companies
may cover part of the expenses you incur when
telecommuting such as ...
How to make your
team more ethical: Let them
telecommute
GigaOm
No Comments Telecommuting has
been touted as a way to save space, motivate employees and
boost productivity, but a new report suggests another
possible benefit to letting your team work from home fewer
ethics violations. ...
August 2011
The Hidden Costs
of Working From Home
MSN Money
By Toddi Gutner | Business on Main Businesses and employees
see telecommuting as a way to save time and money,
but don't be caught off guard by these potential legal and
financial potholes. There's a small army of 20 million to 30
million people who ...
Telework
trumps other commute alternatives
Atlanta Business Chronicle
Teleworking is at the top of the list when it comes
to ways in which Atlanta-area workers get to work without
hitting the road in their automobiles. What is also commonly
known as telecommuting is the fastest-growing commuting
alternative in the ...
Teleworking
Through Irene
Nextgov
The problem is that "people still view telework as a
perk or a flexibility rather than as an asset," said Justin
Johnson, deputy chief of staff at the Office of Personnel
Management, at a FedScoop event on Wednesday. "Until
agencies view telework as an
...
Telework
smoothes Washington commute after earthquake
Federal Times
Apart from the evacuation process, little time was lost
during the workday thanks to the agency's robust telework
program, Danette Campbell, senior adviser for telework,
said at a FedScoop event Wednesday. "Once the announcement
[to leave early] was ...
Fiber optics
making telecommuting easier
Deseret News
By Julie Paulson, For the Deseret News Telecommuting
has been on the rise ever since the Internet explosion of
the 1990s, but it is truly on the cusp of becoming
mainstream, thanks to fiber optic networks, according to
Chuck Wilsker, president and CEO
...
Risks of Letting
Employees Work at Home
Fox Business
By Kate Rogers Thanks to continued technology advancements,
home offices and telecommuting have become
increasingly popular in today's rocky economic climate.
Teleworking is often described as a win-win situation:
workers save money on gas and have the
...
Survey finds
first decline in number of teleworkers, but more
frequent usage
Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal
For the first time since WorldatWork began measuring
telework in 2003, the total number of people who worked
from home or another remote location for an entire day at
least once a month has declined. The teleworking
population in 2010 was 26.2 million,
...
People who work
at home are more honest
MarketWatch
But while many companies have telecommuting policies,
the privilege of working from home often isn'ta given, said
Patricia Roberts, executive vice president of strategic
consulting at Jones Lang LaSalle. Many of our clients are
being very careful ...
Remote Work No
Longer a Perk But a Business Imperative
Small Business Trends
More than half (56 percent) of information workers at small
companies surveyed say their company has no formal
telework policy allowing remote work. (39 percent have a
telework policy.) 36 percent of information workers
feel their peers support remote
...
Profile of a
Mobile Worker
Big Think
With telecommuting on the rise, social contact
manager Gist has analyzed data on the rise of the mobile
workforce, detailing where they prefer to work and the
devices they use to do it. Its infographic provides a
snapshot of this key business trend
...
Ways telework
will change in the next decade
TechJournal South
While resistance to having workers telecommute
remains in private industry, but government agencies will be
turning to that option increasingly and we suspect private
industry will as well. But Chris Knotts at Government
Computer News thinks even the
...
Top 5 personality
traits of successful web workers
GigaOm
3, 2011, 2:04pm PT No Comments Imagine this: you're a
manager hiring for a telecommuting-heavy or even
fully remote position and you've narrowed down the applicant
pool to a couple of equally qualified candidates. One is a
shy but diligent type with an
...
July 2011
GAO supports need
for telework in emergency planning
Bio Prep Watch
by Bryan Cohen on July 26, 2011 The United States Government
Accountability Office recently submitted a report to a
Homeland Security subcommittee about the need for agencies
to incorporate telework into their emergency and
continuity planning. ...
Work at home:
Take pay cut. Come out ahead.
Christian Science Monitor
Amid traffic jams, high gas prices, family needs, and a yen
for more flexibility, what 21st-century worker hasn't
thought about skipping the office scene and telecommuting
instead? But taking a pay cut to do it? To some, the
benefits outweigh the lost ...
Telecommute
Nation: If Half of Us Could Work Remotely, Why Don't We?
The Atlantic
Telecommuting, or working from home, is one of those
trends that most people talk about as much in the future
tense as the present. Only one in twenty formally employed
Americans works consistently from home, but the fact that so
many of us could work ...
Study: Yup,
managers do need web work boot camp
GigaOm
21, 2011, 2:02pm PT 1 Comment Telecommuting has been
a buzzword in the business world for years, but despite the
media and the federal government loudly singing the praises
of remote work, uptake of the practice has stalled. Why?
...
Telecommuters
More Productive, Financial Workers Say
Financial Advisor Magazine
Telecommuters say they feel and work better when
working from home, according to a recent survey by Staples
Advantage, a business-to-business division of Staples. In
fact, over 85% of telecommuters polled say they're
more productive, happier, ...
Telecommuters
More Productive, Financial Workers Say
Financial Advisor Magazine
Telecommuters say they feel and work better when
working from home, according to a recent survey by Staples
Advantage, a business-to-business division of Staples. In
fact, over 85% of telecommuters polled say they're
more productive, happier, ...
Telecommuting
Tips for Greater Productivity
Buildings
Telecommuting is on the rise in the US A recent
survey from Staples Advantage reveals some interesting
facts, benefits, and tips about telecommuting
strategies for your facility or building. The data indicates
that the telecommuting option may produce
...
Number of
Teleworkers In America Takes Dramatic Dive
Treehugger
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 07.12.11 We're big fans of
Teleworking or homeworking or whatever you want to call
it; doing so keeps cars off the roads and saves a lot of
energy. But even as technology gets better and the economics
get stronger, ...
Innovation at
work
The Borneo Post
But there is an old idea, which still has not gained
traction telecommuting, perhaps the most
misunderstood form of work and management ever conceived.
Telecommuting has been around since the time when mobile
communication took off commercially but
...
Connect Ohio
reports state's broadband usage is up
Times Bulletin
Also, only 22 percent of Ohio businesses allow workers to
telework as compared to 29 percent nationwide. "The
Internet opens a world of opportunity, not only for
consumers, but for businesses," said Tom Fritz, Executive
Director of Connect Ohio. ...
Company Perks
Make a Comeback
TheStreet.com
... and should rely on to attract and maintain the
best workers. Simply providing free meals in the morning or
offering employees the option to telecommute once a
week costs the company relatively little but could pay huge
dividends in worker satisfaction.
June 2011
How to Negotiate
a Flexible Work Schedule
SecondAct
Before the recession, companies started offering
telecommuting and other options to hang onto valued
workers -- including boomer employees -- in a tight labor
market. More adopted the practice during the recession to
cut costs, according to the pair,
...
Seeing Is
Learning Why Face Time Between Coworkers Is More Important
Than ...
Knowledge@Wharton
Many companies assume that telecommuting saves money.
But do employees miss out on anything when they're not
working side by side? In today's world of instant messages,
smartphones and global conference calls, the concept of two
colleagues working ...
From Freelancers
to Telecommuters: Succeeding in the New World of
Solitary Work
Knowledge@Wharton
From freelancers to telecommuters to laid-off workers
making do with temporary gigs, an increasing number of
Americans are reporting to work each day from a corner of
their home, a space in the garage, a private office or even
a table at the local ...
REGION: San
Diego, Riverside counties rate high in
telecommuting
North County Times
San Diego County is the nation's telecommute capital,
while the Inland Empire has the sixth-highest
telecommuting rate among large metropolitan areas,
according to a survey released Monday by Carlsbad
researchers. "San Diego stands out above the crowd
...
When It Comes to
Telecommuting, Companies Save, But the U.S. Lags
BroadbandBreakfast.com
June 28, 2011- The Telework Research Network released a
report Monday on the state of telecommuting , showing
that individuals who work from home are more productive than
those who report to an office everyday, but that the United
States has a lower ...
Commuting
solutions benefit workers, employers
Atlanta Journal Constitution
He's also seen a more progressive attitude about flexible
work schedules and telecommuting. The Clean Air
Campaign offers consulting services and training for
teleworkers and telemanagers, and it can help companies set
up pilot teleworking programs.
...
Eco-conscious
generation 'driving uptake of home working'
Codestone
This is the view of Peter Thomson, director of research at
the Telework Association, who said people are
increasingly veering away from the idea of commuting into
work. "There is now a generation coming in and saying
various old habits that applied in
...
A workforce
without walls
Signal
More than 8 million American workers telecommute to
company jobs, said a study from the University of Oregon.
The school estimates that 30 percent of the workforce may be
telecommuting by the year 2020. It's amazing when
you get into the technology of
...
Ask LH: What
Tools Should I Include In My Work-From-Home Toolkit?
Lifehacker Australia
By Alan Henry on June 28, 2011 at 3:00 AM Dear Lifehacker,
I'm going to start telecommuting next month. I'm
looking forward to working from home, but I'm clueless about
how to best collaborate with my team at the office. What
tools can I use to work ...
Mark Arum:
Gridlock Guy
Atlanta Journal Constitution
More tolls equals more telecommuting. With the extra
cost of tolls, perhaps employers would be more willing to
give their employees the opportunity to telecommute.
If 20 percent of workers were allowed to telecommute
imagine how much better your
...
Working in
Harmony with Your Virtual Employees
Business Insider
Here at Smallbiztechnology.com, many of our writers
telecommute, so we've learned a thing or two along the
way to make sure that our writers contribute timely and
quality work. To have this happen consistently, no matter
the writer, here are a few tips
...
BC's Center on
Aging & Work wins grant
Boston Globe
By Globe Staff The Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston
College said it has been awarded a $2.7 million grant to
study such issues as flex-time and telecommuting to
see how they can maximize productivity from an age-diverse
workforce.
Study Says GSA
Teleworking Employees Should Have Video Conferencing
Government Video
A study of the closing of nearly half of the General
Services Administration (GSA) telework centers it
had established in the Washington, DC area says the GSA
should consider closing the rest of the centers and
providing its employee with video
...
Number of
teleworkers declined in 2010, report says
Bizjournals.com
The number of people teleworking in 2010 declined 22
percent from 2008, according to US Bureau of Labor
Statistics data cited in a new report on teleworking
from human resources consultant WorldatWork. WorldatWork
said that the decline in the
...
Home Economics:
How to adapt a home for a home office in today's economy
...
Philadelphia Inquirer
That's a far cry from the home-office-as-emerging-trend of
the 1990s, when telecommuting depended on having a
work space that could accommodate, in addition to desk and
chair, a telephone, a desktop computer, a modem, a printer,
a file cabinet, ...
2011 Green
Commute Challenge
Kansas City infoZine
Kansas City, MO - infoZine - This summer, employees at
workplaces across Greater Kansas City will save hundreds of
thousands of dollars in combined gas costs by carpooling,
taking the bus, walking, biking or telecommuting
during the 2011 Green Commute
...
A Recession for
Perks? What Companies Offer and What Employees Want
Knowledge@Wharton
Gross agrees that employers today need to be as efficient
and lean as possible, adding that perks like
telecommuting and flexible hours "don't need to be seen
as costs, but as different ways of looking at the
workforce.... [In that sense], flexibility
...
Striking a
Balance Between Security and
Telecommuting
CTO Edge
It's no surprise to anyone that a greater number of people
are working remotely these days, myself included. A quick
walk around my neighborhood on any given workday at around
11 am confirms this trend: Screen doors and windows are wide
open and cars ...
Should Your
Company Allow Telecommuting?
Small Business Trends
By Susan Payton Big or small, more companies are looking at
letting their employees telecommute now than ever
before. According to Telework, 20 million to 30 million
Americans work from home at least one day a week. But many
business owners still cling ...
Could the Net be
killing the planet one web search at a time?
Calgary Herald
We can telecommute instead of driving to work. We can
have a meeting by teleconference instead of flying to
another city. Ironically, despite the web's
...
Are Gen Y
Telecommuting Natives As Well?
BNET (blog)
But when Entry-Level Rebel spoke with Sara Sutton Fell, the
CEO of telecommuting and flexible jobs board
FlexJobs.com, she made a slightly different argument about
how the youngest generation in the workforce has been shaped
by their lifelong immersion ...
A Silver Lining
to the Recession: Increased
Telecommuting
GigaOm
Sara Sutton Fell, the founder and CEO of flexible and
telecommuting job board FlexJobs.com, is in an ideal
position to know. As the economy tanked and now waveringly
rights itself, she has observed the quantity, type and
behavior of both employers and
...
May 2011
Atlanta Is Most
Friendly City for Telecommuters, Says Microsoft
Survey
International Business Times
Still, the survey found that employers are willing to offer
only four days of telecommute a month, whereas
employees seek nine days. Workers in this city work remotely
five days per month, one more than the national average, and
report the "highest ...
Work is something
you do, not a place to go
Montreal Gazette
Telework is becoming increasingly popular, with one
in four Canadians saying their employer supports the idea of
working from home, according to a survey from Workopolis
released ahead of Canada's unofficial Work From Home Day on
June 1. ...
9 Ways To
Increase Your Productivity While Working From Home
Mashable
Whether telecommuting or freelancing, more and more
professionals are trading in the cubicle for the home
office. We hear all about the perks of the work from home
lifestyle no long commutes, more time with family,
conference calls in pajamas, etc.
...
As Gas Prices
Rise, Some Employers Turn to
Telecommuting
HR.BLR.com
However, for the 1 in 3 employers who are helping out,
allowing employees to telecommute is the most popular
option. For a Limited Time receive a FREE HR Report on
"Critical HR Recordkeeping. This comprehensive HR report
covers how employers can take
...
What The Feds Can
Teach Businesses About Telework
GigaOm
Companies have long held back on telecommuting
because they worry about not being able to monitor
employees' productivity. But that objection is eroding,
according to Farah, due to the amalgamation of work and
life. It used to be that you punched in
...
GSA installing 15
telepresence sites
FierceGovernmentIT
While GSA's latest program shows an emphasis on telepresence
as a means to avoid business travel, GSA has recently
deemphasized its role in helping reduce day-to-day workforce
expenses and emissions through telework. In late
April GSA decided not to ...
Want to commute?
There are gas-saving options
Roanoke Times
A WorldatWork study released in February found 83 percent of
the US employers it surveyed offered ad hoc telework,
58 percent offered telework at least one day per
month but not full time, 57 percent offered at least one day
per week but not full time, ...
What to do When
the Next Oil Shock Hits
Energy Collective
With the Internet, telecommuting and finding others
who want to carpool is easier, consumers can shop online,
and Skype provides face-to-face communication without the
need for travel. These benefits can only be fully realized
with supportive ...
Companies foresee
staff working in virtual office
Business Day
Much has been written about virtual offices in the past few
decades, but the rush to telecommuting or working
from home has not materialised to the extent predicted. Only
1,6% of those working for large employers work from home,
and 63,5% still commute ...
Verizon
Teleworking Saves 18000 Gallons in Six Months
Environmental Leader
Fewer than 200 Verizon employees saved more than 18000
gallons of fuel through teleworking in just six
months, the company says. The telecoms firm carried out a
study of employees in several locations, to determine the
impacts of teleworking.
...
Give Employees
More Control If You Want Them To Be Happy
The Business Insider
For instance, employers could offer alternative work
schedules such as flextime or telecommuting. Today's
employees have demanding schedules outside of work, and many
workers appreciate a boss who considers work-life balance.
...
City has $20M
plan to keep 2000 workers out of offices
Ottawa Citizen
By Joanne Chianello, Ottawa Citizen May 17, 2011 2:01 AM
City Hall is planning to spend $20-million over four years
to introduce a telework program for almost 2000 of
its workers, council's IT subcommittee heard Monday morning.
...
Five Ways to Cut
Commuting Costs
Patch.com
5) Work from home: If you don't have to leave home, your
commuting costs drop to nothing, and many companies are
doing more to encourage telecommuting. Visit
www.telecommutect.com,
which bills itself as "a statewide initiative providing free
assistance ...
Where Do We Go
(To Work) From Here?
Huffington Post
It's more of a feeling of uncertainty as to where the whole
telework discussion is going. Every couple of months
we assemble (virtually and in person) a
...
Human Resources:
4 Valid Concerns About
Telecommuting
GigaOm
9, 2011, 2:04pm PT No Comments When we discuss
telecommuting dilemmas for businesses, we often jump to
talking about management issues. But many other parts of an
organization can also have valid concerns about
telecommuting; one of them is the human
...
Death, taxes and
gas pains
Zanesville Times Recorder
At $4 per gallon, a telecommuting employee saves
about $1000 per year when driving a car getting 20 mpg on a
20-mile round trip commute. A penny saved is a penny earned,
so reducing travel costs has the same effect as a pay raise.
...
When home is your
office
Fredericksburg.com (blog)
Here are a few tips on making telework as productive
and pleasant as possible, compliments of DEGW, a strategic
business consultancy. 1. Dedicate a space to work. Pick a
place that is your primary work place in your home, at least
during office or ...
Why You Shouldn't
Take a Pay Cut to Telecommute
PCWorld
By Meredith Levinson, CIO Telecommuting appears to be
the most underrated employment perk of the digital
age-underrated by employers, that is. Most employees would
love the opportunity to work from home full-time. In an
informal online poll conducted
...
How to increase
employee engagement and improve the bottom line
Smart Business Network
Now the rise of mobile technology and online collaboration
has killed the dream of work-life balance, which has
a direct impact on employee engagement. A study of 80 global
companies, conducted by Paul DeYoung and Tracy Shamas and
several colleagues ...
Absenteeism can
wreak havoc on a company's bottom line
nwitimes.com
allow employees to telecommute, especially when they
do not feel well. Many employees are willing to try and work
from home even when they do not feel 100 percent healthy.
The survey found 30 percent of employers use
telecommuting programs to control
...
April 2011
The dark side of
working from home
GulfNews
According
to a survey from technology job website Dice, 35 per cent of
937 IT professionals surveyed in the US in mid-March said
they would accept up to a 10 per cent pay cut to
telecommute in light of soaring gas prices. Working from
home also means ...
Fewer Employers
Plan to Offer Workers Fuel-Price Relief
IndustryWeek
Telecommuting is also less likely to be increased in
this environment. Despite data showing that telecommuters
are just as if not more productive, many companies are in an
'all-hands-on-deck' mode and want their employees on site to
handle fires as ...
Telecommuting
offers savings for employers
Benefits Canada
Companies looking to save money while increasing employee
productivity and morale should consider more opportunities
for telecommuting, according to a new white paper
from Calgary Economic Development and the Telework Research
Network. ...
How to write
better e-mail messages
FCW.com
A federal manager's ability to write clear and concise
e-mail messages takes on a new level of importance when he
or she chooses to telework. In most instances,
managers will rely on e-mail to convey the bulk of
information to their employees,
...
Feds to use IT
buying power to push green
Computerworld
By Patrick Thibodeau Computerworld - WASHINGTON -- The US
government has been urging green IT practices in its
operations, consolidating data centers and offering
telecommuting. Now it wants to go a step further and use
its formidable buying power to
...
Federal
Telework Guidelines Released
InformationWeek
The Office of Personnel Management has set up policies and
instructed several agencies to collaborate on security
policies around teleworking. By Elizabeth Montalbano
InformationWeek The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
must confer with the ...
Survey Shows Jump
in Teleworking
Patch.com
Many metro Atlantans are turning to commute alternatives,
such as carpooling, transit or teleworking, to get to
work. According to the Clean Air Campaign, the Metro Atlanta
Regional Commuter Survey, which was conducted on behalf of
the Georgia ...
Technology kills
work-life balance: survey
TVNZ
Alexander said work/life balance is vital in an
environment where we are encouraged to do more, with less
time. Promoting it as part of business culture can lead to
increased productivity, reduced absenteeism and better staff
retention, she said. ...
Escaping the
commute: boon or bane?
CoolAvenues
Since
these findings do not support commonly held beliefs about
telecommuting they need to be kept in mind while framing
organization-specific policies for regulating work from
home. 1. People work from home because they live far from
the office. ...
Ruff day at the
office
New York Post
But, with more businesses getting hip to telecommuting
and the fact that more than half of all US small businesses
are home-based, annoying co-workers are becoming a thing of
the past. New Yorkers who work from home may spend their 9
to 5 without human ...
Work/life
balance key for top employers
Indianapolis Star
Instead, Central Indiana's top employers are the ones
offering more creative perks -- such as flexible scheduling
and extra vacation days -- that help employees achieve
better work/life balance. "The firm understands that
work is not all we have to do.
...
Managing
Telecommuters and Office Workers
strategy+business
Telecommuting has become more common worldwide, and
researchers have identified several benefits to working
remotely: It boosts employee performance and satisfaction
and reduces turnover and office costs. One of the downsides,
however, is the challenge ...
Green
transportation of tomorrow
Mother Nature Network
By Roni RobbinsThu, Apr 14 2011 at 12:10 PM EST Comments
Telecommuting, HOV lanes and drive-through emission
testing once seemed like the future of green transportation.
To keep pace with growing mobility demands worldwide, recent
efforts to reduce ...
Measuring the
Impact of Telework Week
The Business Insider
Telework Exchange, a public-private partnership that
promotes telework, partnered with Cisco to establish
2011 National Telework Week, which encouraged
organizations and individuals to pledge to telework
for one week in February. ...
Working at home:
8 tips to stay sane--and productive
BNET
... are happier and more productive than their
office-bound colleagues, according to the Telework
Research Network. But working from home has its drawbacks.
...
Managers
measuring staff productivity 'may support remote working'
Chartered Management Institute
According to Shirley Borrett, development director at the
Telework Association, leaders who take this approach
should not have a problem when it comes to
...
Remote access
staff 'should be judged on productivity'
Codestone
This is the advice of Shirley Borrett, development director
at the Telework Association, who said many managers
are struggling to accept the idea that
...
Factory is where
our computers eat up most energy
Arizona State University
For
one significant example, computers enable people to
telecommute for work, reducing traffic congestion and
gasoline use. We should manage the impacts of
...
A Work-Life
Balance Is Up To You, Not Your Employer
City Town Info Education Channel
For many of us, achieving a work-life balance isn't
easy. We're constantly checking for "urgent" emails
after-hours--even on holidays--and there's always something
that needs to be done immediately, even if you're just about
to leave the office for the ...
VoIP Promotes
Telecommuting among Large, Medium and Small Scale Businesses
Breaking Story
A new trend of office workforce is increasing its demand.
Through Voice Internet Protocol (VoIP), many businesses are
now establishing telecommuting between their company and
employees. Companies are now building virtual offices
that will be ...
Teleworking
Permitted, Encouraged for Fort Meade Workers
Patch.com
Telecommuting is a main tentpole in a transportation
demand management plan outlined by leadership at Fort Meade
and neighboring counties. The logic for the telecommuting
push is simple: If employees worked from home even one day
each week, ...
Telecommuters
gain in numbers
Westfair Online
As gas prices squeeze wallets and ever-powerful mobile
technologies become smaller and more cost effective,
telecommuting has become a valuable and productive
option for businesses. By the close of this year, 75 percent
of US professionals will be ...
Can In-Office
Avatars Help Out-of-Office Employees?
GigaOm
As the telecommuting trend grows, however, it's
likely that the cost of in-office avatars will drop,
especially if they turn out to successful. Personally, I
have a hard time seeing a use for a robot as a substitute
physical presence for myself in a
...
Green Living:
Telecommuting and Smart Growth Neighborhoods
International Business Times
That short-term plan needs to include incentives for
carpools and van pools, private transportation networks like
jitneys, telecommuting and general transit
innovation." The country is listening, since statistics
indicate that between 20 and 30 million
...
Work from Home:
Worker to Teleworker
Christian Post
The answer for many of today's employees is telecommuting
(or the newer term, teleworking). Increasingly, employees
are doing all or part of their "W-2 jobs" from home. The
Dieringer Research Group found a 25% increase in one year in
the number of ...
Atlanta workers
find ways to deal with commute
USA Today
According to the survey by the Center for Transportation and
the Environment, an Atlanta non-profit organization, about
400000 people 18% of all metro Atlanta commuters
carpool, vanpool, use transit, bike, walk or telework
three or more days per
March 2011
Telework
Makes the Grade on Saving Money, Happier Employees, and
Environment
Your Olive Branch
... working including reducing absenteeism, lowering
turnover, improving the health of workers, and increasing
productivity. The same benefits are borne out by the
results of a report by The Telework Coalition, Wired
Working as a Lifestyle, that found:
You Need an
Employee Handbook
About - News & Issues
Questions this week have ranged from telecommuting
from another state to selling our products as an affiliate
of Amazon.com. The answers were easy because we had thought
about these issues in advance and documented guidelines in
the employee handbook. ...
Feds turn out in
droves for Telework Week
GCN.com
By William Jackson If anyone is unaware that federal
employees are interested in teleworking, the results
of last month's National Telework Week might get the
point across. A total of 39694 people participated in the
program by working from home at
...
Working at home
not bad
YorkRegion.com
Seated in her home office, she says telework has its
pros and cons, although saving on the rising price of
gasoline may be a definite advantage of working from home.
'People are spending a fortune on gas,' she says. STAFF
PHOTO/STEVE SOMERVILLE If you
...
Saving Time,
Money and the Environment by Alternative Commuting
Patch.com
Most days I telecommute, so I get out of bed and
walk to the office, said Hargett, 34, a business analyst.
On some days, about once a week, she drives from
Lawrenceville to her office in Alpharetta. She began
telecommuting at her employer's
...
Technology, high
gas prices give boost to telework
YorkRegion.com
A sustainability initiative of Metrolinx and local
municipalities, Smart Commute helps companies and commuters
explore different commuting choices such as carpooling,
cycling, transit and teleworking. The goal is to ease
gridlock, improve air quality
...
Off Road Warriors
Patch.com
Proponents say the potential benefits of increased
telecommuting include not only include easing traffic
congestion and saving money on commuter parking additions,
but also the potential boost to the local economy through
sales and increased property
...
Employers choose
perks over raises
WWL First News
Many employers are looking at any way to get the job done
without increasing pay, including offering flex hours and
telecommuting, free education, meals, child care, dry
cleaning, cell phones and memberships to fitness centers.
...
Leading By
Example
Chier Learning Officer
Work-life balance has been rising in importance in
the last decade, particularly as new, younger employees
enter the workforce in increasing numbers. For learning
leaders, the old axiom lead by example holds true here;
leaders who approach their ...
Should You Let
Your Employees Telecommute? Legal Questions to
...
Telecommuting
has advantages you may save on office costs, and employees
tend to work longer hours. But working from home also
carries legal implications.
Cisco Homes In On
Teleworkers
NetworkComputing.com
Cisco is targeting the large and growing telework or
telecommute market with a set of products intended to
extend the enterprise wireless network from the office to
the home. By 2016, 43 percent of US Information workers will
work from home at least ...
Telecommuting
Means a Better Life
Patch.com
Telecommuting to work since April, Douglasville
resident Tamica Wilder said her family life has improved
dramatically. Tamica Wilder used to work at the Chartis
Insurance Agency in Alpharetta. She left for work at 6 am
and got home, after a 50-mile
...
Telework
puts managers in tight spot, officials say
FCW.com
By Matthew Weigelt In a recent discussion, senior department
officials pinned the success of the telework
initiative on trust. Jeffrey Neal, the chief human capital
officer (CHCO) at the Homeland Security Department, said
managers have to believe their
...
Telework
on the sly: How many feds really work outside the office?
GCN.com
These figures might not reflect the reality of government
telework, however, according to both OPM and outside
sources. In an Employee Viewpoint Survey conducted by OPM,
22 percent of federal employees reported they did some
teleworking in 2009, ...
Working from home
- slacking off on the job?
Business Spectator
Telecommuting, e-commuting, working from home and
flexible work options are just a few. Regardless of what
it's called, the practice of allowing employees to work
remotely appears almost universally to pose a problem
for managers. ...
Study:
Telecommuting can save American households about $1.7
billion per year
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
While public transit, biking and walking help tremendously
towards that end, the biggest untapped opportunity in
eco-friendly transportation is probably telecommuting.
A new paper from The Mobility Choice coalition by Justin
Horner (PDF) finds that ...
Save energy while
telecommuting
Berkeley Independent
Increased telecommuting opportunities and home-based
businesses have more South Carolinians regularly working
from home. Although working out of your house has some
distinct advantages, there can also be disadvantages,
including an increase in energy
...
New robot trend
allowing some to work from home
Central Florida News 13
By Jody Lowery, Reporter More and more people are giving up
the commute to work, and that's partly because of
telecommuting. It gives you a presence in the workplace,
without leaving home. From Rosie in the 1960s to
transformers today.
Teleworkers
on the rise
Cherokee Tribune
A new study shows 35 percent more metro Atlanta residents
are teleworking now than did in 2007. Mike Del Valle
of Woodstock is one of a growing number of commuters saying
goodbye to asphalt and hello to working in the comforts of
their homes. ...
Staying Home
Hartford Business
By Brad Kane The surge in gas prices toward $4 per gallon
has spiked the interest of Connecticut businesses in
telecommuting, working employees from home to save on
time and money. Employers that have already taken advantage
of the state's free ...
Telework
options really satisfy
FierceGovernmentIT
The happiest federal employees aren't necessarily
teleworkers, but those who can telework but chose
not to, says the Partnership for Public Service. In a brief
analysis dated March 7, the PPS examines data from the
Office of Personnel's Management
...
Staying on Task:
Working Remotely or Remotely Working?
Patch.com
The laptop may be one the most essential tools for
telecommuters. Getty Images Whether you call it working
from home or telecommuting, the movement toward
setting up shop somewhere other than a traditional office or
storefront is catching on. ...
Telework
option makes for happier employees
FCW.com (blog)
And it turns out that employees who have the choice to
telework, regardless of whether they do so, are more
satisfied at their jobs than those who don't have that
choice, according to an analysis by the Partnership for
Public Service. ...
Anybots Taking
over the Workplace!
Ivanhoe Broadcast News
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- More than 128000000 people jump in a
car, truck or bus to commute to work every day in the US,
but with rise in telecommuting, that number is
starting to go down. Now, robots are replacing telephones to
give people a presence in ...
Work From Home:
Five Ways to Convince Your Boss
WalletPop
A 2008 study by the American Electronics Association found
that 45 million workers were already telecommuting at
least one day a week. The communications company, BT, hired
its first work-at-home employee way back in 1986, says
Forbes. ...
Companies see
advantages to telecommuting workers
Bizjournals.com
The ability to work remotely creates opportunities for
companies to maintain operations during emergencies, such as
the Feb. 1-2 blizzard, or reduce office space and their
ecological footprints. During the recent blizzard in Kansas
City, ...
The Winter of Our
Disconnect
TechNewsWorld
Underscoring this point, telecommuting employees fall
into two categories: those who work remotely only in the
event of an emergency like bad weather, sick children, etc.;
and true tele-workers that have been working remotely
full-time or almost ...
Telework a
positive development in employment
Fergus Falls Daily Journal
Teleworking is the new buzzword that replaces the term
telecommuting: what most people have called working from
home or from remote locations, says Harold Stanislawski,
executive Director of the Fergus Falls Economic Improvement
Commission. ...
Decide What to
Do, What Not to Do
Memphis Daily News
However, as a practical work-life matter, right after
you decide to be or not to be each morning, it's a good
idea to ask yourself what you are going to do for the rest
of the day. But don't stop there. Also ask what you are not
going to do. ...
Remote Access
Offers Complexity, Security Issues for IT
eWeek
More
workers began telecommuting, sometimes from a
continent away, while road warriors made a culture of rarely
visiting the home office. With a VPN and a corporate-issued
laptop, these employees could interface with their company's
network. ...
February 2011
"Work from home"
fantasy: the reality that works
Washington Post
More and more employers are providing telework
opportunities as a matter of enlightened self-interest.
Telework jobs expand organizations' talent pools while
maximizing limited overhead resources and improving employee
satisfaction, as well as reducing
...
Understanding
Generation Y: Career Management
WCW
If we consider work/life balance alone, for baby
boomers, it was the juggling act between job and family. For
Gen X, it meant moving in and out of the workforce to
accommodate kids and outside interests. Now, for 76 million
GenYers who are 20-something
...
Top 10 Tips And
Tricks For Making Your Work Life Better
Lifehacker Australia
Here are our top 10 tips and tricks to make your work
life better.Photo remixed from an original by Bart
Everson Technology and eating don't exactly go well
together, which you're very familiar with if you've ever had
an unfortunate spill. ...
Robots Take
Telecommuting to a Whole New Level
AZoRobotics
Although there is still no replacement for actual
face-to-face communication, these robots take
telecommuting to a whole new level. VGO's Robots will
allow you to move your webcam around a facility, seek out
others to converse with and get the general
...
Telecommuting
now metro area's main alternative to driving solo
Atlanta Journal Constitution
If Susan Rae's work day allows a telecommute, she's
taking it, "hands down," she said. "To me it's the waste of
an hour and a half drive every day in traffic," said Rae, a
communications director who telecommutes three or four days
a week for Roam ...
No raise? Try to
score perks
Chicago Tribune
Times are tough and raises are being cut, but don't forget
about perks like career training, schedule flexibility and
telecommuting. You might not be getting a raise, but
don't forget about perks -- like telecommuting. By
Joyce Lain Kennedy, ...
Convince bosses
to let you telecommute
MyFoxOrlando.com
Telecommuting, Lesonsky says, is happening way more
now thanks to cheap technology and the recession. She has
five ways to convince the bosses you could work from home.
"Per person that works at home, you will save the boss
$20000 per person. ...
Report:
Telework increases across government
GovExec.com
By Emily Long
elong@govexec.com
February 17, 2011 More than 10 percent of federal employees
eligible to telework are doing so, according to new
data from the Office of Personnel Management. In an annual
telework report sent to Congress on Thursday,
...
How to Make Your
Employees Work From Home
BusinessWeek
The
advocacy group shows that if employees with telework-compatible
jobs stayed home one day a week, their companies could save
$6500 annually, per employee. So why aren't more companies
making the transition to "work-shifting?
...
Another good
reason to work from home
Globe and Mail
Here's another reason the tedious practice of spending 40
hours a week sitting in a cubicle is fading: Barriers to
telecommuting are falling faster than
...
Telecommuting
Attractive Option for Gen-Y Workers
Fox Business
Technological advancements have led employers to embrace the
idea of telecommuting, which is a good thing since
work flexibility is a preferred option for
...
Flexible benefits
of working from home ''are increasingly being accepted''
You At Work
Beth Wilson, writing for the Ventura County Star said
telecommuting offers the security of set hours and pay
while also giving staff similar freedoms to
...
Jacksonville
among nation's best places to work, survey says
Florida Times-Union
It ranked particularly high in job security, work-life
balance and recommending the employer to others. St. Paul,
Minn., came in last place among the 50.
...
Program helps
women learn new career skills
Huntington Herald Dispatch
... and both women say their participation in Cabell
County's ONOW class has helped them not only in their
work life, but at home as well.
...
High School Boy
Telecommutes with Robot Help
Tom's Guide
Thanks to the joys of the internet and advancements in
teleconferencing technology, thousands of people
telecommute and work from home every day.
...
Telecommuting
is almost always win-win
Philadelphia Inquirer
I was telecommuting from my dining room, doing my
part for the planet. In 2009, WorldatWork, a human resources
association, found that 17.2 million
...
Case study You
have to work hard but be strict with your time
Scotsman
By Staff Reporter FIONA Pratt, a mother of four young
children who runs two cupcake shops, says she manages to
achieve a largely successful work-life
...
Who's the Boss,
You or Your Gadget?
New York Times
But
even before the birth of her second child last year, she
recognized that she needed to power down to achieve the
right work-life balance.
...
Businesses Deal
With Snow and Employee Issues
ABC News
And not everyone can get their work done via
telecommuting. Rob Wilson, president of Employco, a
Chicago-based human resources outsourcing company,
...
Telework's
spread expected to offset storm's disruptions
Vancouver Sun
Over the past five to 10 years, companies across the country
have embraced telework because employers recognize
it can be much more productive than asking
...
Telecommuting:
Employment Law Legal Risks
Justice News Flash
More workers than ever now telecommute.
Telecommuting can significantly reduce an employer's
overhead expenses, but telecommuting can also lead to
increased ...
Nobody likes an
office bully
TechJournal South
A recent survey by Workplace Options, a leading global
provider of work-life benefits and employee support
services, reveals nearly half (47 percent) of
...
Government
Workers Seek Better IT Tools
InformationWeek
President Obama recently signed a telework law that
provides official support for government teleworkers
and will set up a framework for the practice,
...
January 2011
Fiber Cons - by
Charles Kenny and Robert Kenny
Foreign Policy
Some Scandinavian countries already had 17 percent of the
population telecommuting in 2000, well before
superfast broadband made its debut.
...
Working at home
works for some people
Village News Network
More and more companies are allowing employees the option of
telecommuting, working from somewhere other than in
the office, such as at their home.
...
Telework
lessons from four federal agencies
FCW.com
Meanwhile, a new study on how four agencies overcame those
hurdles including management resistance to establish
effective telework strategies could
...
Telework
Lessons Learned
Nextgov
By Brittany Ballenstedt 01/25/11 01:50 pm ET The new
telework law is sure to change the way federal agencies
do business, and there are undoubtedly some
...
Tied-up in
traffic
The Nelson Daily
The
report suggests a number of other options to improve
commuting such as more options for workers to telecommute,
flex work times, and ridesharing.
...
County board puts
in place telework policy
Coon Rapids Herald
by Peter Bodley At this time, the county does not have any
teleworkers, but now it has a policy for when that
day arrives. According to David Minke,
...
Future of work
could be beneficial to rural areas
Glens Falls Post-Star
Jordan said while workers employed as graphic designers or
journalists can use the technologies to telecommute,
not all jobs have that type of flexibility.
...
Welcome to
telework, Mister First Nighter!
FederalNewsRadio.com
Patch offering Telework Tips for the Stranded. If
you, or someone you know, are new to telework, these
might help! Start with a plan: Make a list of things
...
What employees
and employers can do to avoid burnout
GulfNews
It also pays to promote the work-life balance.
"Helping your people to enjoy a positive work-life
balance is an important part of being a responsible
...
Telecommuting
is Good for Employees and Employers
PC World
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld As technology evolves, many of the
barriers that have traditionally limited telecommuting
continue to disappear. ...
Freedom and
choice of homeworking ''can boost productivity''
You At Work
Flexible working can improve business continuity, as well as
reduce employee absence rates, the Telework
Association has said. Enabling employees to make
...
Patent and
Trademark Office Rolls Out Nationwide Desktop VTC This March
FederalNewsRadio.com
... for videoteleconferencing (VTC) at the Patent and
Trademark Office (PTO) -- and no wonder, as PTO is one of
the federal government's telework stars.
...
COMMUNITY PROFILE
- Fergus Falls
Prairie Business
Telecommuting is a change from how people are used to
working, he states. Telecommuting offers one way
for businesses to be competitive in hiring
...
Flex Time
Flourishes in Accounting Industry
New York Times
At Ernst & Young, as at the nation's other major accounting
firms, workplace flexibility has been built into the
culture even during crunch time.
...
More For Your
Money: New year could mean new perks at work
WTOL.com
Another 27 percent will allow flexible work hours or
telecommuting. And 25 percent will offer mentoring
programs. Jill Turski, who manages Accountemps in
...
Forget
Telecommuting, Telepresence is the New Office Reality
...
ExtremeTech
Anybots and Willow Garage are also primarily marketing their
technology for white-collar telecommuting,
highlighting their machine's ability to give remote
...
1st state
broadband status report: Mixed at best
Minnesota Public Radio
At any rate, that's fast enough to handle your Netflix video
streaming needs, your file-sharing needs, much of your
telecommuting needs. ...
South Korea's
Robot Teachers To Test Telepresence Tools in the New
...
Singularity Hub
English instructors will telecommute into Korean
classrooms for a trial run of new robot teachers. South
Korea is testing robots that could help foreigners
...
Business tech New
Year's resolutions
Examiner.com
Encourage your employees to carpool, or allow them to
telecommute by ... Skype simplifies conference
calling and telecommuting and makes them more
...
Go Green:
Telecommuting good for workers, employers, environment
Lawrence Journal World
By Kelly Barth Arguably, the greenest improvement in the
workplace has been telecommuting, made possible by
technologies such as instant messaging,
...
December 2010
Seven Ways to
Improve Health Care and the Environment in 2011
HealthNewsDigest.com
Encourage telecommuting on a much grander scale. By
some estimates, transportation accounts for 25% of the
world's energy usage, with motor vehicles
...
The Corner
National Review Online
A key ingredient to workplace flexibility is trust
between employer and employee. An employee may negotiate an
arrangement so that she doesn't have to work
...
Editor-in-Chief
Ecopreneurist
Telecommute. Telecommuting is often cited as
one of the most valuable benefits to ...
Telecommuting has been credited with improving
work/family balance, ...
How to make
telecommuting work
Fortune
Telecommuting is a major money-saver for companies
large and small, but it makes it especially challenging for
coworkers to form the kind of relationships
...
Managing the
Everyday Teleworker
CTO Edge
For some companies, it's a result of the ugly economy, but
for others, it's the result of increased telecommuting,
thanks to advances in mobility-enabling
...
Enterprise
Collaboration in 2011: What's Coming Next?
WebWorkerDaily
The number of employees who expect to be able to
telecommute at least part ... Such features also
make it easier for telecommuters to become a key part
of ...
The case for and
against allowing it
News & Observer
At GSK, what Sutton was doing is not called telecommuting.
"We refer to it as a flexible work option," Sutton said.
"All it takes is to get your manager's
...
Homeworking 'can
lead to lower staff turnover'
Institute of Leadership & Management
Companies which offer flexible working conditions are likely
to see increased loyalty, according to the Telework
Association. ...
Work-Life Policy
Unit report noted at conference, in press
Arizona State University
1 at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, explored
the benefits, challenges, and opportunities workplace
flexibility offers to state and local
...
INSTANT MBA:
Don't Cut The Budget For Work-Life Programs, They
Increase Morale ...
The Business Insider
"A common casualty of economic downturns is work-life
programs. Cost containment is important in difficult times,
but we also know that successfully
...
Telework
bill signed into law
Inside NoVA
Connolly said the goal of the bill is to jump-start the
federal government's telework program. There is no
work force on the planet that lends itself
...
Tele-working: Pie
in the sky or creating career opportunities?
ABC Online
By Nicole Bond and Julia Harris Tele-working,
telecommuting, remote and flexible working have been
around for years, but seem to wax and wane in their
...
Video
Conferencing And Meeting Software Leading The Way To
Employee Happiness
NewsFormatics.com
Teleworking or telecommuting as it is also often
called is making waves today thanks to the internet. The
ideal environment to work is not limited anymore
...
More businesses
allowing worker flexibility
AZ Central.com
She credits that with helping the non-profit snare the
Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in
Workplace Flexibility two years in a row.
...
Virginia Releases
Government Reform & Restructuring Report
Gov Monitor
We are also pleased that state agencies are increasing
telecommuting and implementing strategies to decrease
energy consumption by 5%. ...
Teleworkers
experience lower amounts of stress, study finds
FCW.com
By FederalDaily Staff In the wake of the passage of the
federal telework bill, newly published research shows that
employees who telecommute the majority of
...
November 2010
Making
Telework Work
Nextgov
By Brittany Ballenstedt 11/30/10 01:00 pm ET Employees who
telework the majority of the week are more satisfied
with their jobs than those who spend most of
...
Rural SD town
experiences gradual revitalization
Gillette News Record
You can telecommute now. Lemmon, on the downhill
slide for decades, is making a stand, leaders like Penfield
and Hetzel say. Enough is enough, Penfield
...
Teleworkers Can
Get More ... Satisfaction
Treehugger
The two say that employees who telecommute for at
least three days a week indicate they're more satisfied with
their jobs compared to those working mostly
...
Telework
Exchange Announces a Nationwide Telework Week
February ...
FierceCIO
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Telework ExchangeSM, a
public-private partnership focused on demonstrating the
tangible value of telework, today launched the
nationwide ...
Teleworkers
happier than those in office
UPI.com
17 (UPI) -- Employees who telecommute avoid distracting and
stressful aspects of the workplace and as a result have
decreased work-life conflict,
...
Teleworkers more
satisfied
Times of India
A new study has found that employees who telecommute
the majority of the workweek are more satisfied with their
jobs compared to those working mostly in the
...
Does Taking a
Telecommuting Job Save You Money?
FavStocks
By Money Ning on 11/10/2010 5:06 am PSTLeave a Comment
When you approach an employer about the idea of
telecommuting, it's not unusual that the employer
...
Holographic
Telecommuting to Become Reality Thanks to U. of Arizona
UberGizmo
Applications of this technology span from telecommuting
to having doctors and specialists perform and participate in
surgeries and medical procedures
...
The telework
kit: Regular vs. ad hoc home workers
FCW.com
By John Moore Agencies might want to outfit frequent and
occasional teleworkers differently. Here are a few
ideas for how to do that, gleaned from agency
...
4 ingredients of
a telework success
FCW.com
By John Moore When blizzards blanketed Washington in
February, some federal agencies saw their telework
programs transformed into continuity-of-operations
...
October 2010
Teleworkers
are so last fiscal year
FederalNewsRadio.com
Instead of referring to "teleworkers," Johnson said
employees are shifting behavior to be a different type of
"mobile worker." The newer term of art takes
...
Telework
boosts productivity, decreases carbon footprint
Federal Times
I also could say, "Telework is who I am." I came into
government from CSC [Computer Sciences Corp.] where I worked
for the CEO on corporate culture.
...
Winter's Coming _
Time to Let Workers Telecommute?
ABC News
With these early signs of winter, small business owners may
want to think about letting workers telecommute
rather than contend with snow, sleet and ice.
...
The evidence
speaks in favor of telework
GCN.com
General Services Administration Administrator Martha
Johnson, for one, makes a compelling case for telework,
as GCN's William Jackson reports in this issue.
...
Half of Canadians
want to telecommute
Metro Canada - Ottawa
With summer vacation memories fading in the face of winter's
frozen approach, 53 per cent of Canadian workers want a
work-from-home option to avoid long
...
The benefit
workers would take a pay cut to receive
Hr Morning
Some 20% of Americans said they'd be willing to have their
take home pay cut 5% to 10% if it meant more flextime/telecommuting
options, ...
Robots Are
Changing the Future of
Telecommuting
Fast Company
My first morning in the Fast Company office was an awkward
affair. Bleary-eyed, I managed to navigate out of my
editor's office, only to slam head-first
...
Workshifting
Benefits: The Bottom Line
TechRepublic
Telework Research Network This new white paper from
the Telework Research Network provides a quantitative
synthesis of the potential benefits that regular
...
Cisco
Telecommuting Survey: 60% of workers prefer a Home
Office
I4U
Cisco has just finished conducting a huge international
study involving 2600 workers and IT professionals from 13
countries. The survey showed 3/5 employees
Working from home
becoming more popular in U.S.
Troy Media Corporation
According to Wendell Cox, an international public policy
consultant, the strong growth in working at home is likely
driven by telecommuting, as people use
...
Air Force lab
finds a simple way to support
telework
GCN.com
But telework on DOD systems usually requires
government-furnished equipment to provide a trusted endpoint
for remote access. Without a trusted endpoint,
...
Small businesses
improve efficiency with technology
NASDAQ
According to an NSBA survey , 44 percent of small firms let
their workers telecommute, up from 19 percent three
years ago - and 86 percent of small business
...
So What If
Telecommuting Did Encourage Travel? Travel Is Good
Treehugger
by Matthew McDermott, New York, NY on 10.14.10 Yesterday my
fellow TreeHugger Sami posed the question 'Does
Telecommuting Encourage Travel?
...
Survey: Pay and
benefits remain an issue for military families
GovExec.com
The survey found many spouses with successful careers were
allowed to telework. "This is a wide-screen,
big-picture study, and shows the challenges families
...
Two ways for SMBs
to secure their home workers
InformationWeek India
In the slowly recovering economy, telecommuting has
become an essential way for businesses to retain valuable
workers, increase productivity,
...
Faster, cheaper
and easier to use, wireless and broadband connections and
...
NorthJersey.com
"Netbooks play a very important role in telecommuting,"
said Miller. "They are not that powerful but provide
adequate power to do remote desktop protocol.
...
Telework
is about to take off, officials say
GovExec.com
By Emily Long
elong@govexec.com
October 7, 2010 The federal government is on the brink of
shifting toward a culture of telework, according to
agency heads. ...
Cybersecurity and
telework make an interesting team
FederalNewsRadio.com
Federal executives, both civilian and defense, say
cybersecurity plays a big part in where they decide to do
their work. More than a hundred federal
...
Telework
tool: A DOD innovation goes wide
GCN.com
By William Jackson Agencies could soon find themselves
managing more teleworkers: The Senate passed a bill
Sept. 30 setting a deadline for determining
...
Short ride to
solving traffic woes
Toronto Sun
Telecommuting allows flexibility in location and
hours by replacing your office desk with one at home,
facilitated by 21st century telecommunications
...
8 ways to get
what you want from your boss
Marketplace
by Alison Green Thinking about asking your boss for a raise,
flex time, or permission to telecommute? Here are
eight tips to maximize your chances of
September 2010
Work Smart 2:
Stay Connected While Telecommuting
Fast Company
But telecommuting also requires a lot more effort
when it comes to maintaining relationships and connections
with people back at the office.
...
Providing
Employee Perks: Flextime and
Telecommuting
Success Magazine
According to data from the Telework Research Network, a
telecommuting resource site, 72 percent of employees say
flexible work arrangements would cause them
...
Does
Telecommuting Increase Carbon Emissions?
Treehugger
They carry this analogy to other sectors, such as the
question about telecommuting, repeated here in full,
emphasis mine: Telecommuting Working from home is
...
How
telecommuting improves productivity in the workplace
Helium
Telecommuting is an aspect of technology that has
invaded the workplace and changed for the foreseeable
future. The office has been extended to include the
...
Area Leaders
Pledge To Go Car Free
MyFox Washington DC
Thousands of area residents pledged last year to walk, ride
bicycles, take the bus or train, telework, carpool or
vanpool to get to and from their various
...
Big telework
goals being met by a tiny agency
FederalNewsRadio.com
Listed second on the IMLS' Sustainability Accomplishments in
a press release is that "nearly 25 percent of the agency
staff telework at least occasionally.
...
Techies Want
Flexible Work Options
Nextgov
3, with 9 percent of companies offering a telework
option. "Technology jobs with a telecommuting option have
doubled on the Dice site year [over] year," the
...
Telework
breathes new life into old idea
GCN.com
... in infomation technology terms, but it can
provide real value for shiny new initiatives in such things
as cloud computing, cybersecurity and telework.
...
Dale McFeatters:
Labor Day, 2010
Minneapolis Star Tribune
But for all the talk of telecommuting, only 5.9
million Americans work at home. While the 40-hour workweek
is pretty much standard, more than a quarter work
...
The Five Best and
Worst Things About Telecommuting: The Finance Edition
FINS
By Kelly Eggers In 1981, JC Penney gave birth to the modern
practice of telecommuting when it allowed some of its
catalog sales representatives to take
August 2010
LA Road Warriors:
Commuter Stress Taking Its Toll
Huffington Post
Telecommute. It is worthwhile exploring with your
employer whether you could spend a day or two a week
telecommuting, which will not only reduce your carbon
...
Generation Y gets
a dose of job-market reality
Houston Chronicle
But Blake still wants the high salary and work-life
balance. "Young attorneys are taking lower-paying jobs for
the same long hours. ...
Five years later,
lessons learned from Katrina linger -even in Lansing
Lansing State Journal
Instead of bringing government workers together in the
office and putting others at risk to catch the flu, workers
could telecommute. ...
Work from home,
save money and time
WTVM
Two years ago her supervisor suggested she telework
on days she is just interviewing and writing. Now, she
spends her Mondays and Fridays traffic free.
...
Hundreds of Citi
workers to telecommute
Business Gazette
About 900 workers will be shifted to the company's
Hagerstown offices or will telecommute from home,
said Citi spokeswoman Janis Tarter in an e-mail to The
...
Telecommuting
Makes Immediate Sense
Justmeans
For many years, Telecommuting has made good personal,
practical, and economic sense. But today, there's a greater
urgency than ever before to push for
...
11 Ways to
Prevent Burnout and Improve Work-Life Balance
NetworkWorld.com
Exercise is just one of several ways CIOs and IT
professionals alleviate stress, prevent burnout and maintain
work-life balance. The four IT leaders CIO.com
...
Heat waves
interrupts Bay Area's cool summer
San Jose Mercury News
To minimize smog, the Bay Area Air Quality Management
District asks residents to take public transit or carpools
to work, or to telecommute.
...
They're out of
the office, still on the job
So Md News
But telecommuting is down in the region, at least
judging by patronage of the Southern Maryland Telework
Centers, even though a study shows the federal
...
Will Workplace
Flexibility Become the Business Norm?
HR.BLR.com
It's a challenge in which businesses will encourage their
peers to adopt smart practices that provide workplace
flexibility. This will help us pave the way
...
The Four Horsemen
of Telework
FederalNewsRadio.com
Dorobek Insider: You "need surprisingly little to actually
telework." A "basic laptop with wireless capability
and a cellphone," should cover the essentials
A shift toward
working from home
Chicago Tribune
Since the economy tanked, the cost savings associated with
telecommuting has attracted employers' attention.
Virtual workers save time and money by
...
Top 5 Ways to
Improve Your Work-Life Balance
officebroker.com (blog)
We bring you the top five ways to improve your work-life
balance with the help of Heather Townsend, founder of The
Efficiency Coach and author of the FT
...
Couples who work
together face unique challenges
Kansas City Star
By CINDY KRISCHER GOODMAN Finding work-life balance
when you work together is difficult. Now add in the
recession and a sour economy.
...
July 2010
Busting the myth
of our idle youth
Adelaidenow
A NEW report on work-life balance has busted the myth
that Generation Y workers are less dedicated than other
workers. The annual Australian Work and Life
...
IRS is Mostly
Prepared for a Flu Pandemic
WebCPA
Also, in expanding the teleworking program, the IRS
should include a provision for directed teleworking
of qualified employees in an emergency.
...
Home Sweet Work:
Telecommuting Boosts Employee Productivity
Florida Trend
"We have telecommuting workers in every area of our
business, from sales to technical to marketing to finance to
customer care," says Kearney.
...
Workzone:
Flexibility - A no-cost boost for morale, productivity
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
"The fact that workplace flexibility may reduce
work-family conflict, and requires little or no expense to
the company, makes a strong business case for its
...
Most Employers
Offer Telecommuting
Compensation.BLR.com
Fifty-seven percent of employers report that their
organization offers telecommuting in some form,
according to a recent survey of Telecommuting,
...
Is your commute
getting better or worse?
WTOP
Also, telecommuting and transit use is on the rise,
while driving alone is on the decline. "A lot of folks are
using alternative modes [to get to work],
...
Workers Share
Pros and Cons of Telecommuting
WJLA
A study by Commuter Connections says a quarter of all local
commuters telecommute at least some of the time.
That's almost double the number from just six
This Week's News
and Views - Virtual Offices
ABCN's Officing Today
Virtual Office Sales: There are lots of new
virtual office sites popping up everywhere. Some of them
are directly related to the executive suite industry,
...
FORUM: Better
options available than cement
North County Times
More effective mass transit, communities where people live
and work or telecommute may not function for
everyone, but they are sustainable systems that
...
Administration
Pushes Federal Workers to Telecommute
News Channel 8
WASHINGTON - Tuesday, the White House said it wants to
reduce its greenhouse emissions over the next decade by
having federal workers telecommute.
...
Why
telecommuting doesn't always lead to productivity
Helium
by Barbara Guess The telecommuting option of work
conjures all types of positive images for both employer and
employee. So why is this option not available
...
Teleworking: Trust But Verify?
FederalNewsRadio.com
The House-passed teleworking bill could, and is
supposed to, make it possible for tens of thousands
stuck-at-the-office feds to work from home one day a ...
Congress promotes teleworking by fed workers
BusinessWeek
By JIM ABRAMS The House, in a 290-131 vote Wednesday,
approved a bill that would create government-wide
regulations for teleworking and instruct each ...
Workplace Flexibility Addresses Employees' Caregiving
Needs
HR.BLR.com
Time flexibility is what most employees want, says
Galinsky. According to the Families and Work Institute, 79%
of employers permit employees to change ...
Companies Save $10K per Employee per Year from
Telecommuting
Earth & Industry
Telecommuting could save companies $10000 per year
per employee and save employees several thousand dollars a
year, according to a new report. ...
Telework is vital to government operations, chiefs
say
GovExec.com
By Katherine McIntire Peters kpeters@govexec.com July 8,
2010 Despite indications that telework is losing
momentum in government, top executives at five ...
Telecommuting's Win-Win-Win-Win..Etc.
Triple Pundit
As it turns out, telecommuting (aka telework, or the
newly coined workshifting) is also a poster child for the
Triple Bottom Line. ...
Top Work-Life Balance Tips
About Working Moms
When they asked me for work-life balance advice, of
course my first suggestion was to read the articles all over
this site. In fact, the jobs and career ...
June 2010
Creating Workplace Flexibility: We're All In This
Together
Huffington Post
Unlike other workplace issues, we're all in this one
together, each trying to manage two simultaneous agendas,
one personal and one professional. ...
Work Smart: Best Telecommuting Tools
Fast Company
Here are a few of my favorite telecommuting tools. My
friend Rael lives in Portland and works at an office in San
Francisco, and he does it via Skype. ...
Workers seek more flexibility
Charleston Post
Courier
Reports say that lack of workplace flexibility, the
ability to juggle work hours to take care of home-based
needs, may now be the top reason why workers ...
Fathers Trying To Balance Work And Family
City Town Info
Education Channel
Williams, the director of the Center for WorkLife Law
at the Hastings College of the Law at the University of
California, who was quoted by The New York ...
Tips on balancing work and family
Agoura Hills Acorn
Attaining worklife balance is about having realistic
aspirations. Take into account the amount of time, energy
and finances available when setting goals.
Enter "the cloud": An office when and where you want
it
Globe and Mail
That's when we realized the idea of a virtual office
had potential. On that premise, in March, 2009, he started
Officeexec. Today the company has 120 ...
Telework success depends on clear expectations
FederalNewsRadio.com
Telework programs were lauded as one of the only
things that went right during the Washington metro area's
blizzards this winter. ...
Government Lags in Reaping Telework Benefits
Signal Magazine
A recent study has determined that only 23 percent of
federal employees telework regularly or exclusively,
compared to 64 percent of private-sector ...
How to find a job and keep your life
HeraldNet
But despite the common desire for a healthy work-life
balance, today's workplace demands a great deal of time,
effort and attention from its employees. ...
Mobile Work Force Struggles to Find Work-Life Balance
Government Technology
While many people enjoy the convenience and added
productivity of being connected anytime, anywhere, some have
begun to feel that the work-life balance may ...
Never Let Them See Your Pajamas: Powwownow Reveals Its Top
10 Tips for ...
PRLog.Org (press
release)
As a result, forward-thinking businesses are considering
alternative work models such as telecommuting to
empower their workforce to get work done from ...
ChicagoFIRST First Annual Telecommuting Test
Encourages Critical Firms to ...
Earthtimes (press
release)
CHICAGO, IL -- 06/14/10 -- ChicagoFIRST continues its
regional preparedness efforts through the coordination of
the first annual telecommuting -- or ...
10 Tips for Managers of Telecommuters
HR.BLR.com
Expect professionalismtelecommuting should be
invisible to those at the other end of the phone or computer
line; know what will be performed at ...
Telecommuting + Flextime = More Productive Corporate
Workforce
WebWorkerDaily (blog)
11, 2010, 7:00am PDT 2 Comments I'm one of those people who
takes advantage of telecommuting and flexible work
hours to make sure that I am as productive as ...
Pay-freeze pitches are 'demoralizing,' says Virginia
Democrat
GovExec.com
Other changes that could make government more attractive as
an employer according to Connolly include more robust
telework and internship programs. ...
How to Improve Your Employees' Work-Life Balance
Inc.com
The rest are allowed to telecommute when the need
arises. Sue Mounts, the company's director of supply-chain
management, worked for nine months from Tulsa ...
Virtual Offices Reduce Carbon Emissions by 94%
ABCN's Officing Today
In a recent press release from The McLeland Group, it was
revealed that a virtual office can reduce carbon
emissions by approximately 94% compared to ...
Civil Justice Clinic prepares state workplace flexibility
report
Arizona State
University
Workplace flexibility provides multiple benefits to
states as employers, to state employees and to the
community. Workplace flexibility helps the ...
Flexibility preferred
Regina Leader-Post
... location as they are in the office, but only 46
per cent of respondents said they work at a company that
offers flex-time and/or telework opportunities.
...
Next Stop, VDI: Doubling Down On Virtualization A Smart Bet
InformationWeek
Patient data is secure as it never leaves the cloud data
center, and the service also features built-in telework
and disaster recovery capabilities. ...
Good Advice on Introducing a Telework Program
IT Business Edge
(blog)
I've made it clear, through sharing my own experiences as a
teleworker, that I think telecommuting is a win/win
for employers and their staffs. ...
Hope for Federal Telecommuters: Senate Passes Telework
Act
IT Business Edge
While it might not be for everyone, the future of
telework appears bright. Last month I wrote a post in
which I wondered whether federal agencies could set ...
Beyond Nine to Five: Tips for Improving Your Work-Life
Balance
Earthtimes (press
release)
Below, he shared the following five suggestions for helping
to achieve a fulfilling, and appropriate, work-life
balance: Find ways to use your talents in a ...
Telecommuters with flextime stay balanced up to 19
hours longer
ScienceBlog.com (blog)
Given a flexible schedule and the option to telecommute,
employees were able to clock 57 hours per week before
experiencing such conflict. ...
May 2010
Successful telecommuting requires discipline
The Star-Ledger -
NJ.com
Create a virtual office environment. Steve said he
missed the camaraderie of an office environment. "I no
longer have a water cooler to connect with people, ...
Flexible workplace options build loyalty - Articles -
Employee ...
Many participants in the Workplace Options
survey were interested in workplace flexibility,
and 69% said they would be more loyal to their employers if
they ...
Just another day at the office
Daily Gleaner
By LAVERNE STEWART Nancy Reid has taken telecommuting
to a whole new level. Her job is here in Fredericton, but
for three months this year, she worked from ...
7 Items Employers Want to See on Telecommuters'
Resumes
WebWorkerDaily (blog)
That's just as true if you're looking for a position that
allows you to telecommute as it is if you're looking
to work in an office. ...
Telecommuting is on the rise
MiamiHerald.com
Today, more than 34 million US adults telecommute at
least occasionally and that number is expected to swell to
63 million -- or 43 percent of US workers ...
The future of telecommuting: Move to Idaho, keep job
in Los Angeles
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
By Joe McKendrick | May 20, 2010 | The Internet has spurred
a new migration wave: professionals who seek their own
private Idahos, literally. ...
Overextended Workers Find Relief in Workplace Flexibility
Chier Learning Officer
Many factors lend themselves to a healthy work-life balance,
and the results of a recent poll of American workers
indicate that workplace flexibility is a ...
The future of work
The Age (blog)
More people are telecommuting and there is a growing
army out there of contract workers, many of whom were forced
to reinvent themselves. ...
Forget the telecommute - now you can 'robocommute'
(w/ Video)
PhysOrg.com
The robot hears via three microphones that feed audio to
the telecommuter, and has high-quality speakers for
audio in the other direction. ...
Anybots QB Robot is a Telepresence for the 21st Century
PC Magazine
It's your telecommuting boss, hundreds of miles away,
who's checking up on you through QB. Unveiled Tuesday, this
5-foot, 9-inch, 32 lb rolling bot, ...
Workers 'must improve work-life balance'
ashdowngroup.com
UK professionals should recognise the importance of spending
quality time relaxing away from the workplace, it has been
claimed. According to Gill Trevelyan ...
Toss out that time card, get more productive employees
FederalNewsRadio.com
With telework, it's still controlled. It's still --
'You can telework two days a week and I need to know
when you're working that day and you need to be ...
Firms urged to ensure good employee work-life balance
Thomsons Online
Benefits
Employers must encourage their employees to find the right
work-life balance, it has been claimed, perhaps by
offering flexible benefits. ...
Dress for the Office to Increase Telecommuting
Productivity
Lifehacker
Check out the full article at the link below for more
telecommuting tips. Have a tip or trick of your own?
Let's hear about it in the comments.
Office in the clouds
Asia Times Online
The virtual office concept is not a new one. This new
software, despite the rather mystifying blurbs on the
website, attempts to simplify things for those ...
Note to Managers: Just Because You Will It, Doesn't Make It
So ...
Fast Company
He wanted to telecommute two days a week as he was
doing with his current job. ... With regard to the
prospective CEO who wanted to telecommute, a venture
...
Robots bring telepresence to stay-at-home workers
Times Online
For regular people to telecommute into their job, it
basically has to come down below the price of a car. That is
just happening now. ...
Tech Talk: The benefits of telecommuting for work
Patterson Irrigator
To do so, a telecommuting program has to be set up.
Telecommuting is defined as working at home while
communicating with the workplace by phone or computer.
...
Get tips on how to work and live together
abc7.com
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- With the changing economy meaning more
unemployment, delayed retirement, and telecommuting -
couples are likely to spend more time ...
Intelligent use of mobile technology can help you find
balance
Financial Post
The signs are that work-life balance is a problem for
many Canadians. Last year, Health Canada published the
latest in six reports from a 2001 National ...
April 2010
Answers to tricky HR questions: Helping offsite workers feel
they ...
Hr Morning
Today's question: How can we entice telecommuters to
get more involved in our company culture? We've got a group
of employees who telecommute. ...
Measuring Raleigh's sustainability efforts
Raleigh Public Record
To reduce its own staff commuter emissions, the city has
adopted a telework program. Some telework
programs also promote office sharing, which reduces the
...
Convince The Boss That You Should Telecommute
Forbes
Now she chanced negotiating a permanent telecommuting
arrangement with her boss. "Because our company has a core
value of healthy work-life balance, ...
Don't ignore worker's claim of depression
Anchorage Daily News
Although telecommuting rarely constitutes a required
accommodation, employers may need to adjust employee's work
schedules." Your key question is whether ...
Your health and wellbeing at work: Achieving work-life
balance
Chemist+Druggist
A healthy work-life balance may be difficult to
define, but the chances are you will notice if your
work-life balance is disrupted. ...
Telecommuting: The Greener Workplace
The Epoch Times
With so many jobs mainly based around computers these days,
telecommuting is becoming increasingly popular. It
saves employers and employees time, money, ...
Stressed-Out Americans Need Job FlexibilityBut Will
Bosses Ever See the Light?
In These Times
Barack Obama speaks during the closing session of the Forum
for Workplace Flexibility at the Eisenhower Executive
Office building. ...
Initiative aims to make Calgary a world leader in
telework
Calgary Herald
In an effort to improve productivity, attract and retain
employees, and sustain the environment, Calgary Economic
Development has launched a telework ...
County working to reduce air pollution by cutting back
employee commutes
San Luis Obispo
Tribune
The alternate work schedule and telecommute policies
are designed to help the county comply with the state Global
Warming Solutions Act of 2006, ...
Debunking the Myths of the Telecommute
New York Times
I've been telecommuting since I started with this
company over 10 years ago. Going from reporting to an office
before I joined Edmunds to working at home ...
It's never too early for work-life balance
AsiaOne
Work-life balance was something I always thought I
should deal with 'later' - the phrase seemed to be something
only seasoned workers were entitled to use. ...
Companies offer convenient work/life solutions
MiamiHerald.com
By CINDY KRISCHER GOODMAN Not long ago, companies were
rolling out all kinds of work/life benefits such as
child care centers and elder care assistance. ...
Work-Life Lessons From Peter Drucker
Baseline
By Bruce Rosenstein Peter Drucker's teachings on personal
growthor self-managementare as profound as his views on
organizational management. ...
Routine Flexibility
GovExec.com
Recently, a number of developments suggest the thinking on
telework has evolved from treating workplace flexibility
as an exception to serious consideration ...
Teleworking and Government Shutdowns
FederalNewsRadio.com
Some places, like the Patent and Trademark Office, have made
teleworking a part of the job. Some IRS employees
tell us they have, for years, ...
Officials tout telecommuting
Inside NoVA
Gerald E. "Gerry" Connolly dropped by to discuss the
importance of telecommuting. The legislator is
sponsoring a bill that would require all federal ...
10 Secrets to Being a Successful Corporate Web Worker
WebWorkerDaily (blog)
I've been one myself, telecommuting from my home
office, and at other times, I've managed people who worked
from home both part-time and on a permanent ...
American companies need to embrace teleworking
Mother Nature Network
(blog)
Teleworking, telecommuting, and working-from-home,
these are terms that are often used interchangeably.
Yesterday, this topic received some much needed ...
The Food Revolution, The Work Revolution
Huffington Post (blog)
Most people think of schedule flexibility as a perk- but
journalist Claire Shipman said, based on the results it
produces, "we should call work life balance ...
March 2010
Basic Steps Toward Work-Life Balance
Forbes
Achieving the elusive "work-life balance" can often
feel like an impossible goal, especially for people who
strive to give everything 100%. ...
More workers are choosing fear over flex time, experts say
CNN
But fewer workers are accepting the offers for a more
convenient schedule, according to several work-life
experts. The reason is simple: fear, ...
Telework firm urges federal training on hiring
disabled workers
Washington Post
The Telework Exchange, continuing its push for
advancing teleworking, and the Federal Managers
Association partnered on the study in advance of a
conference ...
Striking the right work/life balance
Times Online
Getting the work/life balance right is the modern
woman's dilemma. We ask the experts how best to achieve it
Julia Hobsbawm, founder of the media and ...
The office: Paperless and work on the move
Sunday Times.lk
And, because of a predicted blurring between the
functionality tomorrow's office and tomorrow's home, the
virtual office concept will kick in when you reach
...
Millennials: Lazy Workers or Champions of Work/Life
Balance?
CNBC
Millennials: Lazy Workers or Champions of Work/Life
Balance? Millennials. The very word sparks debates galore.
And depending on who is speaking, ...
New technology, programs help disabled employees become more
successful
OKC.Biz
Technology, training and the growth of telecommuting
jobs mean more opportunities for the disabled. Telecommuting
and flexible scheduling can mean the ...
Working from home isn't everyone's cup of (office) tea
Times LIVE
According to a survey conducted by US website
CareerBuilder.com, about 27% of employees telecommute
at some point during the year. Working from home has its
...
California IT Security Officials Still Wary of Cloud
Computing
Government Technology
Recently Weatherford wrote the security standard guidelines
that were incorporated into California's telework
policy. The standards had to be strict enough ...
Reduce IT costs and boost employee productivity with remote
worker initiatives
TechRepublic
Researchers have found that one in three information workers
telecommute at least occasionally. According to
Forrester's 2009 IT Services Survey, ...
Behind the 'digital curtain.' Why face-to-face communication
is still the best.
WisBar
Organizations hand out cell phones, laptops and PDAs to
employees so they can telework without even coming
in to the office. Everyone is connected through ...
Middle Boomers create their own paths
MiamiHerald.com
Yet, they are looking at work/life balance from a
different perspective: focusing less on career and earning
money and more on family and personal ...
How To Make Shift Work Family Friendly
NPR
It's Called Quitting' Work-life experts say cases
like Underwood's happen a lot because of the
unpredictability so many low-wage and hourly workers face:
...
Nothing to fear from teleworking
Financial Post
... warns Linda Russell, managing partner of
Telecommuting Consultants International, which helps clients
implement telework and virtual office programs.
...
The End Of 9-to-5: When Work Time Is Anytime
NPR
They soon decided that letting some employees telecommute
or have a four-day week wasn't working. Ressler says when
managers grant these special favors to ...
Businesses Still Slow to Let Workers Telecommute
Datamation
Despite high costs for maintaining acres of office cubicles
and the attendant facilities expenses, many US companies are
still skeptical that employees can ...
How to get started teleworking
FederalNewsRadio.com
1) Get to know your agency Telework Coordinator. Be
sure to ask about any agency-specific procedures. 3) Once
you've made your selection, you'll need to ...
Microsoft survey: Employees believe they are more productive
working remotely
Examiner.com
But, just as anyone would assume, the survey also found that
most companies are not supportive of telecommuting.
1. Telecommuters are redefining what it ...
Telecommuting Means Billions in Savings
WebWorkerDaily (blog)
Lister's numbers are based on the telecommuting
savings calculator she's built, using figures from the US
census. Currently, less than 2 percent of US ...
CSC Launches First Secure Government Employee Remote Access
Solution
MarketWatch (press
release)
This secure telework solution is the only
government-approved product that meets security standards
and permits the use of non-government equipment to ...
Recession spurs employee loyalty, Kelly Services survey
finds
Crain's Detroit
Business
... to 39 percent of Gen X and 34 percent of Gen Y.
Only 12 percent of those surveyed said telecommuting
or working from home was extremely important to them.
Guide to working with family and/or friends
New York Daily News
Combining your work life and personal life can be a
combustible brew. Even people who've done it successfully
would have to acknowledge the potential ...
Benefits of employees working from home to be explored
Richmond Times
Dispatch
... with the Virginia Department of Rail and Public
Transportation, will develop the topic "An Introduction to
Telecommuting: The Employer Option that Pays. ...
Workers taking fewer career risks
NEWS.com.au
"Generations X and Baby Boomers' focus has shifted to
work/life balance. "Another change in the perspective of
Generation Y came from the importance of an ...
Throwing Employees a Lifeline
Talent Management
Its development process initially began with an employee
survey that encouraged honest feedback on work-life
needs. Some of the major issues raised were the ...
Generation everyone
The Age
As for the cliche that gen Y is too interested in
work-life balance and job-tasting to apply themselves to
any single employer,Naparstek disproves the rule. ...
The Non-Commute
Associated Content
... companies provide continuous communications with
employees outside the office. Here are just some of the
facts from the Telework Coalition Study:
California Issues Telework Policy to Curb
Cyber-Security Risks
Government Technology
The policy letter aims to help state agencies develop robust
and secure telework and remote access arrangements
for state employees, while minimizing ...
5 tips on how to manage change at work
Bankrate.com
On the benefits side, think creatively and determine what
you need, whether it's a four-day work week or a
telecommuting situation or a job share. ...
A Flexible Work Arrangement May Have Health Benefits
eMaxHealth
Examples of flexible or alternate work arrangements include
self-schedule start and end times, telecommuting from
home, job sharing, and gradual or partial ...
Tough times call for the ingenuity of entrepreneurs
Mass High Tech
Back then, faster residential Internet speeds and a shift in
workplace culture led to the notion that telecommuting
was a way to attract and retain top ...
An architect's ideas on using facility space and saving
money
Mass High Tech
Telecommuting is where people are working for the
company but not usually at the company premises. They have
to figure out how much space to allow for when ...
QC hoping to boost its Internet speed
East Valley Tribune
That survey indicated an interest in telecommuting,
among other things. Of the 64 percent of residents with
Internet access, 33 percent telecommuted to work ...
7 Tips for Working for a Younger Boss
U.S. News & World
Report
... work through lunch, but a generation X or Y
manager says that telecommuting allows you to miss
the rush hour and get some more work done," says Gravett.
...
February 2010
Does telecommuting make employees better? SXSW
panelist says yes
Austin
American-Statesman
Jayna Wallace, 'Showering Optional: Tips for Remote
Employees' When: 3:30 pm March 14. Where: Austin Convention
Center, Courtyard Rio Grande B. 500 E. Cesar ...
Living local, working global
Computerworld New
Zealand
The Cisco Virtual Office I have at home means I can
conduct meetings from home leveraging all the functionality
and capabilities I have at my actual Cisco ...
Telework: From "What if
" to "What now?"
FCW.com
If nothing else, the Snowpocalypse served to crystallize the
difficulties that must be addressed before telework
becomes a standard practice at federal ...
Work Smarter with a Virtual Office
ABCN's Officing Today
Virtual offices started in the mid 1980s, however,
the industry has dramatically evolved as technology has
changed the way we work. ...
Lessons learned, best practices on telework examined
FederalNewsRadio.com
Arlington County, Va., is touting its telecommuting
arrangement as a success story when it came to continuity of
operations. Marcy Foster, director of the ...
Job relocation ... to your living room
CNNMoney.com
Those, like Guerin, who are reluctant to move can always
inquire about telecommuting and find employers who
are open to that option, Robinson said. ...
Customer Contact Strategies Shows 'The Way Home' with
Workshops, Training
TMCnet
Telework also enables organization to go green by
minimizing commuting. The challenge has been how to get
there: moving organizations accustomed to ...
Meet the Father of Telecommuting
Inc.com (blog)
The first is with Jack Nilles, who is known as the father of
telecommuting and who coined the term back in 1973.
Enjoy!
Generations.1: Working with Millennials
KRQE
And it'll look at how clashes between generations might be
contributing to a less-than-satisfying work life. Do
you work for or manage these hardworking, ...
Working At Home Is More Productive Than Working In The
Office
Fresh Business
Thinking
By Lea Pachta The Telework Association productivity
survey, released today, shows that people working at home
produce substantially more than when they work ...
Perriello pushes for telework tax credit, better
access for businesses
Lynchburg News and
Advance
Perriello met with about 10 business leaders Tuesday who
shared their thoughts on teleworking, in which
workers use an Internet connection to work from ...
OPM strategic plan calls for increase in telework
Federal Times
That goal which OPM outlined in its 2010 to 2015 strategic
plan released Friday would increase the number of
teleworkers to more than 154000 over the ...
Practical experience reveals telework isn't as easy
as it sounds
GCN.com
By Michael Hardy The snowstorm that paralyzed the Washington
metropolitan area in December 2009 was widely considered to
be the first major test of telework ...
Working At Home Is More Productive Than Working In The
Office
Fresh Business
Thinking
By Lea Pachta The Telework Association productivity
survey, released today, shows that people working at home
produce substantially more than when they work ...
What's your action plan for telecommuting?
Washington Technology
(blog)
Over the last two years, I've worked sporadically from home
and I've liked the flexibility, even though I've never
thought of myself as the telecommuting ...
Texas Alpha Telepresence Robots in Production
Robots.net (blog)
... its use as a telepresence platform for the
masses. Someday, in addition to going to the office, or
telecommuting, you may have a third - telepresence.
Telework centers offer alternative workspace for feds
FederalNewsRadio.com
By Max Cacas When you say "telework", most people
think of staffers toting home a laptop, and logging in from
a cozy home office and taking calls on their ...
Why Flexible Hours and Telecommuting Are on the Rise
Business West
It's no wonder accounting is such an attractive field for
women, considering what a leader the industry has been in
providing work-life benefits like ...
Students learn from the light of experience
Financial Times
With the work-life balance gaining increasing
prominence, many executives in residence are keen to share
their wisdom and give back in some way to the ...
Virtual offices: Firm offers professional space on
as-needed basis
TMCnet
Feb 14, 2010 (Tribune-Democrat - McClatchy-Tribune
Information Services via COMTEX) -- When Dennis P. Kotzan
heard a radio commercial for a virtual office, ...
Manpower launches MyPath to help careers
Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel
It includes reams of articles and blogs on work-life
balance and workplace quandaries ("should you friend your
boss on Facebook?"). ...
Telework -- is it right for you and your
organization?
StandardNet
As some of you may already be aware, telework
arrangements are currently being used throughout the federal
government as an employment incentive. ...
How to Develop a Corporate Telework Pilot Plan
WebWorkerDaily (blog)
11, 2010, 4:00pm No Comments Making the move to corporate
teleworking may seem simple from the web worker's
perspective. However, the introduction of ...
More Incentives for Teleworkers?
Nextgov
Gerry Connolly, D-Va., asked OPM to quantify how many
telework agreements in government require employees to
keep working during office closures, ...
Balance means business
btob
Support for work/life balance is critical, and it
must come from the top. Employees can work themselves sick
trying to prove themselves worthy of ...
Will 'Snowmageddon' Thaw Federal Resistance to Telework?
IT Business Edge
(blog)
By date: When I've written about telecommuting in the past,
the discussion has often focused around improving
work/life balance, broadening employee ...
The big picture
Washington Post
27 agencies reported cost savings/benefits as a result of
telework; of these, the greatest benefit was to morale
(24 agencies), ...
Teleworkers get the job done with a BlackBerry and
car charger
FCW.com
I was 100 percent on my BlackBerry during the outage," said
Stephen O'Keeffe, executive director of the Telework
Exchange, a public/private partnership. ...
Snow highlights telework's benefits for federal
workers, advocates say
Washington Post
Despite closings of the federal government and a
record-breaking snowstorm this week, federal workers such as
Campbell clocked in by teleworking. ...
Blizzard got you telecommuting? Heed these 5 tips
MarketWatch
If you travel for work, your company likely already has
telecommuting policies in place, you're aware of them,
and you have the required hardware and ...
For Telecommuters, It's Not About Going To Work
NPR
All 40 people who work for Fuentek are required to
telecommute. Schoppe calls Fuentek a "virtual company,"
with no traditional office at all. ...
Federal government closes: Why can't they all work from
home?
Christian Science
Monitor
It's the government, though, so signing up for
telecommuting is kind of an involved process. You've got
to apply (tip: don't tell them about working from ...
Stay home, let Texas Robot attend that meeting
CNET
If you're tired of commuting to the office and
telecommuting won't cut it, the Texas Robot lets you
scoot around work embodied in a robot platform while ...
A dangerous storm
Baltimore Sun
Many employers let workers telecommute or punch out
early. Airlines canceled flights in and out of Baltimore,
and Marylanders everywhere stocked up on food, ...
Washington DC Area Closing Announcements Pile Up as Blizzard
Nears
Associated Content
OPM activated its unscheduled leave policy, issuing a
memorandum Thursday encouraging "chief human capital
officers" at Federal agencies to allow telework,
...
State of Green Business 2010
Mother Nature Network
(blog)
Companies are falling behind on their initiatives in carbon
intensity, employee telecommuting, and e-waste. I am
surprised that in 2010, ...
Skip The Raise, Ask Your Boss For These Perks Instead
Lifehacker Australia
I'm puzzled by places that don't allow at least some
telecommuting. I tend to get more work done from home
because I want to show my accountability when I'm ...
The Budget's Personnel Priorities
Nextgov
The budget also prioritized increasing by 50 percent the
number of eligible federal employees who telework by
2011, and proposes funding for worksite ...
My Word: Rail would aid housing, jobs
Orlando Sentinel
... broadband access and speeds and encourage
employers to allow their employees to telecommute
whenever practical through appropriate tax credits. ...
Making the Case for Diversity as a Good Business
Practice-and Then Fostering It
Leagle.com
... Architects and Designers, opportunities for
retirees, and workplace flexibility with such things
as telecommuting, nontraditional hours, and flextime. ...
Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center Contracts with Best
Upon Request to ...
Earthtimes (press
release)
Concierge services are designed to enhance employees'
work/life balance, leading to increased retention,
satisfaction and productivity. ...
Mobile technology 'key' to the work-life balance
V3.co.uk
European consumers believe that mobile technology is
enhancing their work-life balance rather than
overloading them with communications, according to a new
...
Work-life balance responsibility of employees, say
workers
Recruiter
Three-quarters of employees say it is their responsibility,
not that of their employer, to achieve a satisfactory
work-life balance, according to new ...
The Technology Paradox: It Separates But Unites
NPR
We learned it was a byproduct of the fact that so many IBM
employees telecommute from home or hotels. In fact,
now, IBM is shifting a significant portion of ...
How Much Can Telecommuting Cut Carbon Footprint?
TMCnet
By Gary Kim Lots of people these days are interested in
telecommuting, at least in part because of its ability
to reduce carbon footprint. ...
'Young' may be a label, but smart firms covet Gen Yers
RocNow
Some companies even tout things like small company feel
and workplace flexibility to attract and retain Gen
Yers. In the recent Fortune 100 Best ...
Skills push to lift output in face of ageing population
The Australian
Barriers include cultural and employer barriers,
workplace flexibility, including the ability to work
part-time, education, the availability of support ...
HOT lanes are not the best solution
HeraldNet
... including increased bus service; incentives to
get solo drivers out of their cars to take the bus, join a
car or vanpool, or telecommute; keeping the ...
January 2010
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