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June
28
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New
Bill would give $500,000 to US Office of Personnel Management to
promote telecommuting and break down some of the related managerial
barriers
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June
27
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Charlotte
board of County commissioners approve telecommuting, which will allow
some employees who perform their jobs on computers to work from home
or another location
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June
27
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How
Do I Know You're Working When I Can't See You?
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June
26
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The
secret to five-star service remote access service
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June
26
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5
Ways to Equip Telecommuters: Make telecommuting work by starting with
a functional home office IT support for remote users is increasingly
painful
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June
26
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Where
the telework jobs are
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June
26
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Culture
- getting people to adopt it - remains the key barrier to telework
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June
26
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Stressed
colleagues, office politics and the trials of commuting are behind the
huge rise in the number of people opting to work from home, according
to a survey for the Evening Standard
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June
21
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Can you help with this research project?
Participants needed for brief interviews about their experiences with
hotdesking or temporary workspaces. If interested, email Dr. Crystal
Fulton at Crystal.Fulton@ucd.ie
or at CrystalSAFulton@yahoo.co.uk
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June
19
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In
some places, telecommuting a reality
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June
19
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Which is better for teleworkers: cable or DSL?
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June
19
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The
White House policy on broadband: Tech companies convinced that only in
a wired nation will the demand for telecommuting and conferencing,
distance medicine and education, security services, and entertainment
translate into demand for a flow of hardware, software and content
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June
18
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MSNBC:
Telecommuting on the rise in U.S. Technology, flexible firms help
drive trend
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June
18
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Friend
and colleague Gil Gordon — in association with the Work and Family
Connection — has developed two online training courses for
telecommuters and managers
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June
17
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Research
shows that one of the biggest things companies can do to boost job
satisfaction is to offer employees the option to telecommute
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June
17
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More
telecommuting means a lot of business is being done in suburbia
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June
15
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US
Patent OfficeTelecommuting Program Gets Bogged Down in Labor Dispute.
Telework for some 315 senior patent examiners stops over dispute
concerning program's rules
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June
14
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Written
policies on telecommuting and alternative work schedules seen as among
most effective approaches to reduce absenteeism
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June
14
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New
office environments reflect another swing of a trend pendulum that's
been moving for two decades, including telecommuting, hoteling and
alternative officing
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June
13
|
Robert
J. Sawyer, award-winning futurist sees more telecommuitng in
future: In Toronto, the roads are past their peak capacity. Says
telecommuting is a win/win, with the employee saving time, money and
stress and the employer offloading the expense of office space and
support facilities
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June
13
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Telework
will be a matter of survival within a decade, when half of Canada's
nine million baby boomers will be 50-60 yrs old — the age at which
many people start looking for flexible work arrangements
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June
13
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Toronto
Virtual Assistant is into her 6th year of telework
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June
12
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Go
to work in your pyjamas -- New technology is allowing more people to
work from home, at least some of the time. Just as we did before the
industrial revolution
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June
12
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Colleague
Phil Montero has a new book called "WORK AT HOME: The Telework Job
Seekers Handbook" which is designed to help find legitimate work at
home jobs while avoiding scams. He offers the book at the reduced price of
$24.95 for visitors to this website
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June
11
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Infonetics
Research Inc. forecast shows that spending on secure "virtual
private networks" to grow over 100% to $46 billion worldwide by
2006 as companies increasingly jump online and the ranks of
telecommuting employees grow
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June
10
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Manilla
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June
7
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One
in 14 UK workers are teleworkers, marking a 70% increase since figures
began in 1997. Office of National Statistics says 2.2 miilion people
were working from home at least one day a week using a computer and a
phone
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June
6
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British
National Statistics Office shows 65% rise in telework to 2.2m of
workforce
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June
5
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Outfitting
your home office in this digital age where it's almost compulsory for
both employers and workers both to at least consider the possibility
of telecommuting
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June
5
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Bank
of Nova Scotia's senior VP of HR takes work-life balance to a whole
new level. Managers given wide latitude to negotiate alternative
working arrangements - including telecommuting - with their employees
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June
4
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GSA
study by Booz Allen Hamilton Study shows that US federal telework
program has many challenges to overcome
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June
4
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Michigan
lawyer may sue to operate office from home, but some say this is not
like telecommuting which doesn't have an impact on the neighborhood
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