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Feb 28	How much layoff notice must employers give to teleworkers?
Feb 28	Technical and security issues to consider when setting up a telecommuting program
Feb 23	North Carolina is missing the boat on how to alleviate traffic congestion ... what I�m talking about: telecommuting When possible, find ways to travel with a strong current, not against it. Telecommuting means following this current
Feb 23	IRS To Employ Persons With Disabilities As Home-Based Call Center Agents -- Hires the National Telecommuting Institute and call center outsourcer Alpine Access to provide call center services using home-based agents with disabilities
Feb 22	Working From Home Lowers Risk of Rush Hour Heart Attack ...
Feb 22	Any Storm in a Portal? When the technology downturn, Mapics Inc., of Atlanta, decided to shed real estate rather than people. The company made such a commitment to telecommuting that three-fourths of its staff now work from home, client sites, or other remote locations on any given day
Feb 21	Check out the series of free telework workshop hosted by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) and Commuter Connections
Feb 21	Georgia bill would jump-start telework
Feb 17	Users Grow Virtual Call Centers - Research firm Gartner predicts that by next year 10% of call centers will use outsourced work-at-home agents
Feb 17	Home as Office - You can conceivably set up most of your company for telecommuting with Windows Server 2003�s much-improved RRAS and VPN features. Here�s how
Feb 16	UK IT bosses heap praise upon the Government's Home Computing Initiative, which intends to get more computers into homes across the country, with many saying they are now considering launching such schemes for their staff
Feb 15	Information communication technologies (ICT) can make working from home much more productive. But teleworking has to overcome an image problem. Once seen as perhaps an excuse to skip doing real work, an EU-backed study on remote working proves it has some definite benefits for the workers but also for the organisations that allow it.
Feb 14	Toni Kistner: Telework boosted by virtual call centers, Part 2
Feb 14	The Cost of Commuting: Companies lose when long drives make workers late. 80% of employees consider the commute an extension of their workday. A stressful commute seriously impacts an employee's sense of job satisfaction and can negatively affect employee retention, productivity, while increasing stress and health insurance costs
Feb 11	Australia announces $300 million broadband strategy. Includes establishment of a National Teleworking Taskforce to advise Government on options and impediments to the development of teleworking opportunities for business and employees.
Feb 10	Quelle horreur! France to end short workweek. Big majority favour fewer hours, but employers complain of lack of flexibility. Ditto for Germany and some other Eurepean countries
Feb 10	Benefits can help employees balance their lives. Flexible hours and alternative work arrangements - such as part time, job sharing and telecommuting - will be an attracter for those who seek greater work/life ...
Feb 10	Well Does Work-At-Home Work?
Feb 9	Bush Proposes Creation of New Tax Breaks, including those to encourage telecommuting
Feb 9	Close encounters of the faceless kind - managing dispersed teams, working in remote-work environments
Feb 6	New telework story: Virtual work a success for Toronto-area company
Feb 4	Congress threatens to cut 5 million from the budgets of some agencies (State, Justice, Commerce, FTC, SEC, SBA, to name a few) if they don't meet teleworking targets
Feb 3	Feb 3 Toronto Star: Ottawa not up to `One Tonne Challenge' by Bob Fortier - Federal government is an international laggard when it comes to perhaps the cheapest and easiest way to get cars off the road and dramatically cut emissions
Feb 2	Federal Telework Survey: Majority Of Federal Workers Express Interest In Telecommuting. But federal agencies have been slow to implement telework programs, even though 87% of federal employees surveyed say they're interested in teleworking, and only 19% actually do so. IT pros blame information-security requirements for the slow progress on developing telework programs
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