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Oct
30
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Telework
can be advantageous when workers are faced with the challenges
presented to us by the recent shootings
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Oct
30
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Nortel
employee from Kemptville, Ontario finds telework gives her many
benefits
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Oct
30
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Making
room for the new wave -- Boomers, Gen-Xers are slowly learning to fit
into the same work space. Boomers believe in putting in "face
time. but Gen-Xers seek a more balanced life, including telecommuting,
and view their job as simply a way to make a living
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Oct
30
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Connecticut's
Transportation Strategy Board touts encouraging flex time and
telecommuting to reduce traffic congestion in the state
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Oct
29
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San
Fernando Valley mayoral candidate Mel Wilson to provide tax relief for
businesses that encourage employees to telecommute or car-pool
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Oct
28
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Paying
the price for working from home - some UK teleworkers being obliged to
pay business rates on their personal income taxes
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Oct
28
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Cool
Canadian work-at-home plan targets gas emissions. Teleworkers could
soon be putting money in their employers' pockets under an Alberta
pilot project that gives companies tradable greenhouse-gas credits for
keeping their employees off the road
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Oct
28
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Texas
"roads only" approach leaves many communities unable to
fully meet the needs of the 1 in 5 people who can't or don't drive, or
don't have regular access to a vehicle. Group proposes solutions such
as telecommuting
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Oct
28
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Telecommuting
saves businesses, agencies millions... About 25% of IBM's 320,000
workers worldwide telecommute from home offices, saving $700 million
in real estate costs. Additional benefits in higher worker
productivity and a happy work force
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Oct
25
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LA
Federal Workers Find Little Support for Telecommuting - The Fed, in
the trend-setting California area, is slow to adopt telecommuting
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Oct
25
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Mental
Health Association urges to encourage telecommuting and other flexible
options as way to help workers cope with fear and anxiety from the
sniper's shooting spree
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Oct
24
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Let
the wires do the walking -- Study from Access Markets International
Partners projects 67M telecommuters, or half the U.S. work force, by
2006
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Oct
23
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Boca
Raton City Council approves measure requiring owners of large downtown
properties to consider telecommuting, mass transit subsidies and
carpooling to take traffic off the roads
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Oct
23
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The
National Mental Health Association suggests telecommuting to D-C-area
employers to help a spooked workforce cope with the impact of the
region's sniper shootings
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Oct
22
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You
Say Teleworking, I Say Telecommuting. Who cares what you call it -
let's call the whole thing 'popular' -- 20 million are doing it in the
European Union, according to Bonn Empirica society
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Oct
18
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Why
can't boomers and Gen X just get along? New book says that some 70% of
companies have flex-time and telework policies, but if boomer managers
don't like them or don't trust working that way, they truly frustrate
the purpose
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Oct
18
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Tools
for telework -- You too can outfit a home office for telecommuting and
conducting business
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Oct
18
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Trends
in telework - Remote offices will change the way companies do
information systems
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Oct
18
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Right
Brain, Left Brain: The Home Offices of Design and Information
Professionals
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Oct
17
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CIO
Magazine book Review -- What's Happening to the Home? Balancing Work,
Life and Refuge in the Information Age
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Oct
15
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Bringing
in the big guns - whether and how to choose telework consultants
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Oct
15
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Teleworking
'is good for your health' -- Major UK research project confirms that
teleworking increases quality of life
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Oct
15
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Flexibility
called key in curbing sprawl -- Urban policy expert says
"telecommuting" saves more gasoline mileage than public
transit
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Oct
15
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Wash.
DC. With the sniper loose, and workers terrorized, US Office of
Personnel Management asked to encourage telecommuting for federal
employees
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Oct
15
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Returning
to work for the disabled. Employees facing physical challenges find
comfort and productivity in telework
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Oct
15
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Stress-free
teleworking myth exploded. Telework can create a whole new set of
stressful problems, according to research done by a business school in
Nottingham (this underscores the need for well-designed telework
programs that teach employees how to 'do it well')
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Oct
15
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Bridges.com's
massive website features two telework (and Bob Fortier) in two of its
stories: "Is the Telecommuting Trend Going to Last?"; and
Virtual Supervisors Will Soon be Sought After" Note: password
needed
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Oct
11
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Telecommuting
and flexible work arrangements good tools for progressive employers to
help cancer patients keep working
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Oct
10
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Ontario
worker given the choice of teleworking rather then moving
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Oct
9
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London,
Ontario tele-manager tells her story
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Oct
9
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New
Improved Internet -- The need for employees and entrepreneurs to
telecommute from home has clearly grown in importance since the
terrible events of 9/11. However the type of work that can be done via
telecommuting is being hampered by slow Internet speeds
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Oct
9
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Globe
and Mail article says only 20% of workers work flex time and 1% do
formal telework (given other survey results, we don't completely agree
with the latter number)
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Oct
9
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Teleworking
booms in Europe: New survey published by the Bonn Empirica talks about
increase in telework
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Oct
9
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Digital
etiquette: With all our technology and McMansions in rural
subdivisions and telecommuting and private bedrooms and dorm rooms for
all the kids ... have we forgotten how to behave around other people?
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Oct
8
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Tech
agency points way past Web dangers -- The National Institute of
Standards and Technology published on Thursday aimed at helping
civilian agencies lock down their Web servers and e-mail servers to
protect against security risks from telecommuting
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Oct
8
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British
Telecom shrink-wraps telework: BT is to offer secured broadband
channels for remote workers BT has introduced a range of off-the-shelf
virtual private network VPN packages to deliver secure LAN access to
teleworkers and branch offices
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Oct
8
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Telecommuting
could ease Irish traffic -- With commuters now spending an average of
two hours per day in the car, the lack of viable telecommuting options
has added to the nation's traffic woes
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Oct
8
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Confusion
over rules, terms keep US federal government telework numbers low:
Poor communication, a lack of knowledge about policies and confusion
over the number of terms used are responsible for the slow start of
telecommuting in the federal workplace. To maintain consistency,
overview group recommends that OPM designate “telework” as the
official term for all alternative worksite arrangements
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Oct
8
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CBC
radio special on telework features CTA's Bob Fortier
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Oct
7
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Some
Georgia drivers offered cash to telecommute etc in an effort to change
commuting habits
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Oct
5
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American Press
business writer telecommutes during Hurricane Lili
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Oct
3
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Founding member of
the British Telework Association tells us his telework story
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Oct
3
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Right
Brain, Left Brain: The Home Offices of Design and Information
Professionals. Finally, the negative image of the home office has
shattered
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Oct
3
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Tools
for telework -- You too can outfit a home office for telecommuting and
conducting business
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Oct
3
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Trends
in telework -- Remote offices will change the way companies do
information systems. According to the GartnerGroup, there will be 30
million teleworkers in the United States by 2003, up from the current
estimate of 21 million. Thought tlecommuting programs save companies
money, there are some computer support costs
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Oct
3
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Las
Vegas report urges programs to reduce the number of peak-hour vehicle
trips, including telecommuting, flextime and ridesharing programs
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Oct
2
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ITAC
president Tim Kane testifies about telework challenges and benefits
before the U.S. House of Representatives Small Business Committee to
help Congress identify policies and programs beneficial to small
business adoption of telework
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Oct
2
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A
Room with a View—And a Connection. A trip to the French country side
turns type-A business person into an out-of-the-box thinker and
telecommuter
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Oct
1
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Telecommuting:
why work-at-home initiative fails to catch on
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Oct
1
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North
American Internet providers say teleworkers are among the contributors
to bandwidth "bandwidth hog" syndrome
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