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Sept 28	Corporations woo baby boomers with flex hours, part-time, telecommuting etc.
Sept 27	George Bush calls on nation to conserve gas
Sept 27	George Bush memorandum urges telework as part of energy and fuel conservation initiatives by federal agencies
Sept 27	Free telework spots offered temporarily: For a limited time, federal employees tired of long commutes and soaring gas prices can telecommute for free at the Hagerstown Telework Center as part of an initiative by the US federal Government Services Administration
Sept 26	Telecommuting's potential remains largely untapped - many managers still have not fully grasped the concept, fearing that they will lose control of their employees' time and attention
Sept 26	With commuting costs rising, some choose to work from home Waterbury Republican American, CT
Sept 26	Teleworking takes off in Atlanta. Nonprofit groups create a telework start-up program loaded with incentives
Sept 26	Telework in Scotland: Midlothian Council to expand teleworking for its staff
Sept 22	As Fuel Costs Rise, Group Urges Federal Workforce to Telecommute
Sept 22	Free 1 hour web conference on Sept 29 on the importance of Telework in private and public organizations in the Wash D.C. and Northern Virginia areas
Sept 22	UK firm fined over inflexible working practices. Employee who wasn't granted telework and flexible hours receives thousand of pounds in compensation
Sept 21	UK-based creator of small, but contemporary, "garden buildings" helps professionals beat rocketing fuel prices by working from home
Sept 21	Nortel Introduces 'Expert Anywhere' Contact Solution, Enabling Access to Anytime, Anywhere Expertise
Sept 21	25% of companies try to help workers with commuting costs during gas price spikes. Steps include letting workers telecommute
Sept 20	Five US Federal agencies have certified to Congress that all of their eligible workers are permitted to telework. As a result, the agencies will not have to forfeit $5 million at the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30, as Congress threatened in a 2005 law.
Sept 19	Editorial: Telework's Time Has Come. One byproduct of the current price gouging by U.S. petroleum refiners is a sudden spike in interest about telecommuting.
Sept 19	Five US federal agencies, each at risk of losing $5 million from their budgets until they showed a commitment to telecommuting, won't lose the money, but Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.) still thinks the government can do more to promote telework
Sept 19	To eliminate the punitive tax on US interstate telework, Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) have introduced the Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act.
Sept 19	National Energy Center, Washington D.C. plans for the Looming Energy Crisis - Suggests that telecommuting could help take millions of workers could be off the roads within a short period of time
Sept 18	Telecommuting one way to save on gasoline. Just a couple of days a week can save workers money
Sept 18	Middle managers - whose value decreases exponentially if there is no one to manage - are notoriously hostile to the idea of telecommuting
Sept 18	Teleworking Technology is Mainstream - In today's world, employees are no longer constrained by location and this makes the idea of teleworking a good way to save money, plan for disasters and retain talent.
Sept 16	Stephan Dion speech includes telework as (small) part of Kyoto solution
Sept 16	Teleworking: The Quiet Revolution (2005 Update) Garnter Group predicts that by 2008, 41 million corporate employees globally will spend at least one day a week teleworking, and 100 million will work from home at least one day a month. The highest proportion of these will be U.S. workers.
Sept 16	Telework Coalition Endorses New Tax Bills That Encourage Telecommuting. As gas prices rise, Congressmen of different political persuasions speak out on the need to encourage telecommuting through sound tax policy.
Sept 16	PC Makers Eye Telecommuters. The greater number of employees working from home could be lucrative for the PC and other markets
Sept 15	Gas Prices Force Some to Telecommute
Sept 15	How to Avoid Pain at the Pump
Sept 14	Northern Virginia Company Does its Part to Relieve Gas Crisis. CEO urges all staff to work from home
Sept 14	Pointsec Provides Government Guidelines for Safe Telework Practices
Sept 14	Management Virtues in a Virtual Office - Stress on deliverables works best
Sept 14	Telecommuting interest soars as pump prices spur workers to abandon long drives
Sept 14	High gas prices making telework more desirable in rural areas
Sept 12	Telecommuting offers big savings at the pump - With gasoline prices soaring after Hurricane Katrina, here's something workers can do to control rising costs: try working more from home
Sept 12	High gas prices fuel options for getting to work - people who telecommute usually stay with the organization longer.."
Sept 9	Sprawl & Crawl - There are even more reasons for governments and employers to initiate telecommuting programs
Sept 9	Telecommuting Mindset shift in Asia Pacific - The growing need for immediate anytime, anywhere communications in an increasingly borderless world plays a large role in the mindset shift by Asia Pacific senior managers towards telecommuting
Sept 9	Teleworkers or Telelosers? If a big chunk of the federal establishment teleworked or had flexible work schedules, life and traffic could be better in lots of cities with lots of feds. But is there another side?
Sept 9	IT chiefs must support the home front - Secure links for teleworkers and roaming employees need solid support from IT departments
Sept 7	US Fed's OPM. In a memorandum to federal agency and department heads Friday, Office of Personnel Management Director Linda M. Springer encouraged agencies and departments to reduce fuel consumption by using telework, carpools and mass transit.
Sept 7	Message in the Modem - For the last decade, elected, appointed and career officials have encouraged, ordered, begged front-line bosses to let more of their troops work from home or a telework center. How well has it worked? How come you are probably reading this from the office office, not your home office?
Sept 7	Smaller cities and towns are attracting big-city professionals seeking a better life -- .. "more and more employers are going to accommodate people to telecommute, or at least fashion a life that's maybe half-telecommute"
Sept 7	Climate change and telcos - Telcos have a major role to play in reducing travel, through services such as tele and video-conferences, teleworking/telecommuting, etc.
Sept 5	Ahhh . . . Home sweet office ... Great article by US colleague Michael Dziak of Peachtree City talks about the benefits of telework during energy crisis
Sept 5	Alternatives such as telecommuting, in vogue as oil prices soar
Sept 5	Ronald R. Cooke, Author of "Oil, Jihad and Destiny" says that in future, "Employees will either have to live closer to where they work or telecommute....."
Sept 2	Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue has asked Georgians to telecommute and avoid unnecessary driving, as they approach one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. He encouraged thousands of state employees to work from home through next week
Sept 2	Rising costs at the pumps could mean a jump in the number of home-based businesses and telecommuters
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