Lon Anderson | 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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Lon Anderson

Lon Anderson is Staff Director of Public & Government Relations for AAA Potomac. Anderson directs both Government and public/media relations efforts for AAA Mid-Atlantic, which serves over 3.3 million members from New Jersey to Virginia.

Anderson’s background contains a wealth of experience in both local and national public affairs. Locally, Anderson served as Publisher of the Courier Newspapers in Upper Montgomery County and as Editor of the News Express, a weekly newspaper in Bowie. He also worked as Press Aide for a former Montgomery County Congressman. At Montgomery College, Anderson served as an assistant to the President and Community Relations Coordinator and was recently honored as Outstanding Alumnus of the Year.

Anderson served as Chairman of the Board of the Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP), a nationally recognized business/government coalition to fight drunk driving and underage drinking for two years. He also served on the Montgomery County Blue Ribbon Panel on Pedestrian & Traffic Safety and the Transportation Policy Review Task Force in Maryland.

On the national level, Anderson has served as press deputy to two U.S. Secretaries of Education and as Vice President of Public Affairs for a Washington trade association.

A life-long resident of Montgomery County, Anderson currently resides in Silver Spring. Anderson is a graduate of Montgomery College, the University of Maryland, and American University from which he earned a Masters Degree in Public Administration.