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Jan 31	Office workers want to break free - One day high bandwidth might mean on top of a mountain - Liberating office workers from their desks could make them more productive, research by BT suggests
Jan 31	Wirehouses Resist Telecommuting Trend. Merrill Lynch is one of the most progressive companies in the US when it comes to telecommuting. However, NYSE rules regarding office records prevent its 15,000 brokers to work from home
Jan 28	12 Myths of Light Rail - A Ticket to Ride or a Ticket to Nowhere? Telework and other forms of "digital travel" are way more cost effective
Jan 28	Working, whether or not - Many must overcome storm to get to jobs. While not for everyone or every job, telework could help some of the work continue
Jan 28	Iced-In Employees Tackle Their Home Work -- senior account executive with Allied Vaughn, worked in his home office in Herndon this week to avoid a 100-mile round trip to Landover on icy roads
Jan 26	Financial Post: The time is right for teleworking: Barrie complex coming: SuiteWorks wants to help you overcome a horror commute (need password)
Jan 26	GSA offers free telecenter trials - Officials from the General Services Administration chose an especially opportune day, with the Washington, D.C. metro region covered in snow and ice, to offer a 60-day free trial of its telework centers
Jan 26	Snowbound: Working without going to work. People who work from home, by computer, fax and cell phone, are productive despite the storm
Jan 26	Getting people to the seat, Part 1. Network World looks at ways to remove the barriers to federal telework center use
Jan 26	Married to the office: Ten years ago the experts predicted we'd all be working from home and job-sharing by now. So why hasn't it happened? As far as corporate Australia is concerned, the promise was kept, and the flexible workplace is here.
Jan 26	Bedrooms kicked out of office. UK teleworkers can breathe a sigh of relief after a landmark case. A spare bedroom in a south London semi recently played a starring role in resolving a legal tussle about homeworkers' tax liability
Jan 26	Being a cyberagent. Many corporations consider them the perfect workers, and employees consider it the perfect job. But is it the perfect job?
Jan 26	MSN Money: The tax traps of working at home. Working from your home would seem to offer some nice tax breaks, and it does. But watch out. The rules also can create some real tax terrors at the federal and state levels
Jan 26	NBC news: Many people who spend their work days in front of a computer could telework if they had high speed Internet connections at home or received approval to work at one of 15 GSA funded telework centers in the Washington area
Jan 23	Phoenix's proposed light rail not cost effective solution. Tax incentives for telecommuting, flex-time and compressed workweeks would all yield more benefits per dollar invested than light rail
Jan 23	Homework chic (Johannesburg, South Africa) Article shows how to set up a home office to complement your working style and home environment
Jan 23	DEADLY JEALOUSY Working at home and murder? New Jersey doctor charged with killing his beautiful young wife. Tension started building last year after the doctor, who sold his interest in a pharmaceutical research firm to begin working from home, became convinced she was having an affair and wanted her to stay home also
Jan 22	Calgary alderman says telework alleviates growing pains. Will ask city council colleagues to support telework as a solution to managing growth
Jan 21	Head of Canadian Chemical Producers Association offers telework insights and advice
Jan 21	Feb 6 is Stop Commuting Day in Barrie Ontario. See full details at www.ivc.ca/events
Jan 21	Working anytime and anywhere The New Zealand Herald talks about telework and many of its issues
Jan 20	New survey from Office of the e-Envoy finds computers at home promote better skills, productivity and work-life balance. Computers at home; allowed respondents to: achieve greater work-life balance and learn skills which helped them at work. 80% said their employer had noticed benefit
Jan 20	Montana employers receive honors and cash for workplace transportation programs which encouraging less driving through telecommuting, flextime, biking etc
Jan 19	Barrie launches Telework office complex � Proclaiming Feb. 6 "Stop Commuting Day," Barrie Mayor Rob Hamilton also announced a land deal between the city and SuiteWorks Inc., which paves the way for the country's first telework office complex
Jan 19	Ethics of Displacement: Is it an unreasonable backlash against telecommuting to expect local reporters to be situated in the community?
Jan 15	Most businesses in Chicago's Rolling Meadows feel city is going in the right direction, however, after 67% of those surveyed say they consider telecommuting important to doing business, the city will look into meeting the business' telecommuting needs
Jan 15	Mellon Financial Corporation's Human Resources & Investor Solutions business (in Jan '04) Major survey of over 600 employers (Jan '04) reveals that companies offering telecommuting have grown to 50% up from 9% in 1996
Jan 14	Globe and Mail features our site in "Bookmark This". If you'd like to work from home or you are an employer who wants to offer this option, this site offers advice, information and training to help you.
Jan 13	Jan 04. The Canadian HR Reporter Satellite offices an option when the commute drives staff away No matter how much they love working for you, the commuting grind gets even the most loyal employees dreaming about better work-life balance
Jan 12	Follow up on the Office of Personnel Management�s new policy giving agency managers the power to require teleworkers to work when the office is closed
Jan 12	Telecommuting could allow Greater Minnesota to stay in the economic game in the 21st century thus stemming the demographic flow out of the area by attracting outsiders who could bring their virtual jobs and paychecks with them
Jan 12	Montana Department of Revenue : Montana could save if state agencies examined opportunities for employees to work at home
Jan 12	Blueprint for changing your work. Customize these letters to ask your boss for a flexible schedule
Jan 12	Firm developing `telework' office centre in Barrie. Rental suites aim to be more businesslike than a home office. Cool story about our friends at SuiteWorks
Jan 10	Telework Stories. Telework no problem for University of Guelph Professor
Jan 9	When you can�t work from home, Part 3 Can executive business centers suit corporate teleworkers?
Jan 9	A Lighter Tread? Policy And Technology Options for Motor Vehicles. Telecommuting" and more recently "eshopping" have been put forward as potential replacements for urban travel
Jan 9	Snow storm creates record levels of telecommuters in Oregon. While some 150,000 and 200,000 Oregon employees already telework regularly, many others (eg 8,000 at Intel and 6,000 at Nike) to telecommute
Jan 7	Okla. City 19 Federal employees who raised concerns about working in the new Oklahoma City federal building will be issued laptop computers and work from home two days per week and from an alternate site three days per week
Jan 7	Go figure! Most companies aren't willing to let you work at home and yet they're willing to hire hoards of people they'll never meet to write their code? Heh. ... (See "Swinging back to a balance")
Jan 6	British Telecom consultant offers a Management Guide to Remote Working
Jan 6	In its Workforce and Workplace Forecasts for 2004, the Herman Group's predicts that traditional work arrangements will further erode as more people work flexible hours, work from home, and use technology to work for employers in distant locations
Jan 6	Men's News Daily says telecommuting partly to blame for the "Samantha Complex" (fear of wilting in the face of a new wave of sexually empowered women)
Jan 6	Telecommuting: At-home job no walk in park. Who wants to punch a clock and wear stiff business attire when working from home is an option? But is it really an option for most Georgians, and is it really that great of an alternative?
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