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Oct 26	WatchGuard Technologies, Inc (Oct 2004) Survey outlines fear that telecommuters and remote workers are weak link in security chain. (WatchGuard manufactures security solutions). Lack of technical knowledge is #1 threat
Oct 26	US Federal policy now explicitly permits telecommuting by contractor employees
Oct 26	Beyond the cost implications, VoIP has the potential to transform enterprises' call centers, offshoring operations and telecommuting tools
Oct 26	The Confederation of British Industry has called for greater use of videoconferencing and teleworking to reduce the impact of road traffic on UK productivity
Oct 25	US Department of Labor's Women's Bureau is doing with a ground-breaking business culture-change program called "Flex-Options"
Oct 25	Telecommuting part of reason why Marin county summer air quality the best on record
Oct 21	US Patent and Trademark Office receives leadership award for leadership in enterprise-wide telework applications
Oct 21	New US Census Bureau (Oct 2004) shows work at home growing
Oct 20	Telecommuting is �Alive and Well and Growing � Employers are still using it both to save money as well as achieve higher productivity
Oct 20	Some US companies can transfer their employees to branch offices in Canada and have them telecommute," she said. "The Canadian immigration rules are much easier
Oct 20	It's a brand new day! Your home office is a real office. You actually have followed the lead of many Fortune 500 companies. These mega-bucks companies are saving millions of dollars yearly by allowing many of their employees to work from home
Oct 20	Three years ago, CTA member Linda Symonds was unemployed and looking for a telework job. She lucked in and found a job as a teleworking manager and sends an update
Oct 19	New online telework certificate program offered by Washington State University and the Telework Collaborative
Oct 19	SHRM says companies may wish to encourage telecommuting if they have employees who feel they cannot stay away from the office when they are sick. Rather than have them come in and use their computers to get work done and infect everyone else around them, they can continue to be productive without making others sick
Oct 19	Telework important to Hamilton job seeker Lydia Smith
Oct 19	Risa Light from Aurora Ontario sold on telework
Oct 15	The Clean Air Campaign Honors MAPICS Software Company for the positive impact its forward-thinking teleworking program has had on the environment
Oct 14	Telecommuting could ease traffic congestion in Hawaii. While not the universal antidote to urban sprawl and traffic congestion, it's certainly part of the solution
Oct 13	Georgia telework takes hold. A year in, two programs are seeing good results
Oct 13	Austin commuters would pay $12 an hour to reduce travel time, survey shows
Oct 13	Northern Virginia officials who spoke at a teleworking forum sponsored by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments urged companies to let employees work at home at least one day each week
Oct 12	Loudoun Economic Summit - Bandwith and telework for the future
Oct 12	Telecommuting Ranks High on Job Seekers� Lists
Oct 12	Australia's Senator Coonan announces plans to form a teleworking taskforce to look at ways Australia can take advantage of the adoption of broadband technologies
Oct 7	Commuting can have big impact on work performance
Oct 7	Employees who telecommute, run a small business from home, or take work home from the office may lack the resources they need to create ergonomically safe and comfortable work environments
Oct 6	Let the telecommuting begin - US federal policy for the first time explicitly permits telecommuting by contractors and their employees
Oct 6	New ways of ensuring South African staff loyalty - Nearly 30% of surveyed HR executives said they were opting for telecommuting over physically sending people on international assignments
Oct 5	If Telecommuting Is a Pain Ergonomics Can Be the Solution
Oct 5	Research and Markets: Challenges and Opportunities of the Remote Worker Phenomenon
Oct 4	The City of Austin's telework program is a model to emulate, in good times and bad. 3 years ago, it launched an aggressive pilot program with only an $85,000 grant from the Texas State Energy Conservation Office...
Oct 4	Taking the stress out of work - More US feds are doing their jobs from home or satellite locations
Oct 1	Paving the Road for Telecommuters
Oct 1	Australia's federal government undertakes study into the factors preventing teleworking (including significant people, relationship and attitude problems). Taskforce to look at the causes of these attitudes and ways of overcoming them
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