Please don't come to our conference! Save fuel, time and the air instead by visiting the Canadian Telework Day Website.

What is Canadian Telework Day?

Canadian Telework Day is a nation-wide telework education and public awareness campaign. As an Internet-based collection of telework initiatives and supporters, there is no physical conference or gathering. As with Telework Day '98, which was an unqualified success, Canadian Telework Day '99 will be endorsed and supported by many business and political leaders as well as other well-known figures from both the public and the private sector. There is every reason to believe that this year's event will be even better than last year's. Canadian Telework Day is founded and sponsored by the The Canadian Telework Association.

When is Canadian Telework Day?

Canadian Telework Day '99 is this October 27, a date chosen for several reasons. First, we wanted to coordinate our Day with Telework America, a North America-wide program of public awareness and education, which this year is also being held on Oct. 27. Also, Oct 27 is just prior European Telework Week 99 which runs from Nov. 1 to 8.  Holding Canadian Telework Day on Oct 27 gives us the opportunity to publicize and promote our plans internationally. The resultant publicity should generate more attention on our efforts and events, and help us better promote the Canadian telework agenda.

Objectives

The objective of telework day are to raise Canadian awareness and provide information on benefits of telework, telecommuting and new officing arrangements; to encourage more Canadians and their organizations to telework; and to increase the Canadian Telework Association's membership base. By participation in the program, employers and individuals can learn about and experience the benefits of telework. Please join us. With your support, we hope to make it an annual affair.

Who is it for?

Telework Day is for anyone interested in telework - from existing or future teleworkers, their managers, and Canadian business and government leaders - and who feel this new way of working holds the potential to fundamentally affect our economy, our cities, our air, our work and families, our transportation systems, and so on.

What can YOU do on Canadian Telework Day?

Try out telework and tell us about it;

Hold a telework-related open house or other special event (email us for details);

Join the Canadian Telework Association;

Join other teleworkers for an online chat from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. EDT by logging in to ITAC's website. Sponsored by AT&T WorldNet, the chat will provide highlights of TWA Day, TWA Leadership Summits held throughout the USA, ITAC's Blue Ribbon Panel's grey paper on recommended practices and National Telework America research results.

If your organization does not have a telework program, start one up with help from resources such as CTA's website, or Telecommute America Workshops;

If your organization already has a telework program, tell us about it, and publicize it in internal and external media before and during Telework Day.

Tell us about your telework situation, why you started, what business and personal benefits you derive etc. Tell us about interesting or unusual telework experiences, case studies or applications.