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April 29	Masters of the virtual world - Financially strapped NW200 vendors find cost-cutting nirvana with large-scale telework deployments
April 29	Telework has yet to be widely incorporated into US federal agencies' plans to continue delivering critical services to the public during an emergency, says Government Accountability Office
April 29	International Energy Agency says Consumers Must Plan Now for Potential Oil crisis - Car-pools, driving restrictions, telework could help shave at least a million barrels a day (bpd) from industrialised nations' oil demand in the event of a supply crisis
April 27	Having a midlife crisis isn't just a guy thing. Wall Street Journal columnist Sue Shellenbarger has an accommodating employer, a work arrangement that allows her to telecommute from her Portland, Ore., home office overlooking a stand of Douglas firs, and "five wonderful kids," three of whom are now grown. From outward appearances, she is the woman who had it all. But success comes with its own particular stresses.
April 27	Work-life balance and flexible working are the single most important issue for today's employees. As Employers continue to face a raft of new employment legislation on the issue of flexitime, the question arises do you associate a cost with offering flexible working or view it as a benefit to the business? This article discusses the government's proposals and the issues employers need to address if and when implementing flexible working.
April 25	Office Of The Future 2020 - "Telecommuting Liaison" administrators will be in great demand in office of the future. As the number of off-site workers increases, companies will designate a telecommuter liaison to connect remote workers with each other and management. In some instances, individuals in this position will work with senior management to develop telecommuting policies, including helping to determine which positions are suited for off-site work
April 25	Boomers Drive Current Workplace Trends including long distance leadership - Thanks to continual advances in technology, more people are working on the road or telecommuting at least some of the time
April 21	Towers Perrin survey of 80 large Canadian companies: Flexible work arrangements reduce work/life conflict
April 20	Ipsos-Reid poll (Collective wisdom on the workplace - the talent game) - 42% of Canadians say they could be retained at one job or lured to another by working from home at least one day a week.,
April 20	US Government's Defence Logistics Aagency expands telework initiative: Working from home remains a fantasy for the majority of federal workers, and is realized by only a few employees in independent positions that allow them to remain outside the office for days at a time, yet remain productive
April 19	Different ways to work remotely.The word "telework" was so sexy back in the mid-1980s. Today, around 20 years later, the idea is still attractive
April 19	Strategic Account Manager for Delphi Solutions Corp. in Markham, Ontario loves his telework.
April 19	Telework, the musical - Kansas City teleworker composes telework song
April 16	Telecommuting tax decision bad for New York business
April 16	Washington officials warn of pandemic flu threat - Suggests employers explore and plane for alternative work schedules and explore large scale telecommuting capabilities
April 15	Working in jammies: Nobody's suggesting that secret war plans be e-mailed from Pentagon employees' personal AOL accounts, but there's no reason more people can't work from home - and plenty of good reasons they should
April 13	More telecommuting and car-pooling likely to take on new meaning for many facing the prospect of high gas prices over the long term
April 12	Just a phone call away - With the help of modern technology, more Americans than ever telecommute to work
April 12	TRUST is vital to tele-working. Technology-supported teleworking will help increase productivity, in a world where the remote workforce is the workforce of the future
April 11	Cost reduction and the potential to ramp up company telecommuting applications are the two main deivers for VoIP
April 9	SuiteWorks, the Barrie, Ont start-up building full-service corporate telework centers around Toronto and eventually in the U.S., is putting the finishing touches on its first �telework office complex"
April 8	Surging gas prices have commuters thinking about telework
April 6	In an effort to increase teleworking, a new US government Web site allows federal workers to calculate how much money they spend commuting to work.
April 4	Virtual work spaces and collaborative tools are changing the way people are working and networking in most IT organisations
April 4	Time Zone Telecommuting. A growing number of US federal agencies have gone to full-time teleworking for most of the staff, and you don't even have to be in the same time zone
April 4	Where do home businesses and telecommute stand in Insurance world?
April 2	Globe and Mail (Bob Fortier interview): The intrinsic appeal of telework - There's more to a job outside the office than the time saved commuting..
April 2	National Post (Bob Fortier interview): Teleworking is alive and well. The paperless office, flying cars, teleworking; all are examples from the future that never was, right?
April 1	Bank of Canada Governor, David Dodge, says a more flexible workforce�through teleworking, part-time work, job-sharing, off-site consulting, and other innovations�can help Canada be more competitive
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