Gary Arlen | The Telework Coalition

President’s Corner

The Telework Coalition (TelCoa), America’s leading nonprofit telework education and advocacy organization, based in Washington DC, was established in 2002 by a group of professionals with experience in addressing the benefits, adoption, and implementation of telework and telecommuting programs. This was in response to a growing need for a single, reliable source of reference material about technology’s impact on our economy, environment, energy usage, and our society in general. TelCoa focuses on how this technology is changing our lifestyles, organizational structures and workplace management, along with the policies, processes and procedures that support them.

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Guest Columnist

March 7, 2012

Nicole Belson Goluboff, Esq.
Author,
The Law of Telecommuting,
The Law of Telecommuting
Supplement,
Telecommuting for Lawyers

Using Telework to Create Jobs and Reduce the Deficit

As the country strives to gain its footing amidst the jobs crisis and the deficit crisis, lawmakers must focus on the traction telework offers.

Telework enables businesses to start hiring. By slashing overhead, recruitment and other business costs, telecommuting makes it more affordable for companies to bring on new personnel.

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On Monday, November 7, 2011, the two U.S. senators from Connecticut, Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced a bill, S. 1811, that would end the ability of any state to tax income earned by telecommuters who are not physically located in that state. The Telework Coalition has long supported such legislation.

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Gary Arlen

Gary Arlen is President of Arlen Communications Inc., a Washington-area research and consulting firm specializing in converging media, telecommunications and information services. Arlen’s primary focus is on the development of new applications and services that are enabled by digital, broadband and interactive media platforms.

For more than 30 years, Gary has conducted extensive research on business development and customer acceptance of new telecom/media technologies. He has served on the board of directors of a public company (games industry) and on advisory boards for numerous interactive media/technology ventures. He has been on the adjunct faculty (teaching communications-related courses) at George Mason University and American University and has guest-lectured at MIT, Harvard, UCLA and countless media, marketing and technology industry events. In 2009, he keynoted the NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference. Gary contributed on-going analytical commentaries for industry periodicals. He has served on the board of advisers at numerous technology start-ups and on the board of directors for an electronic entertainment firm.