TelCoa’s Top 10 Reasons to Telework©

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

Telecommuting Catches On at the Council of Better Business Bureaus

Matthew Scandale

The Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) is a national nonprofit headquartered in the Washington, DC area. They generate $20 million a year with 114 employees, leading a network of 115 independent BBB's generating $165 million in revenue with 2,300 employees. So they probably land in the middle of mid-sized organizations. We work hard to make the world a better place, helping consumers to avoid getting ripped off. We were a random collection of about 100 white-collar workers bustling about the halls and cubicles of a random high-rise in DC. Or at least that's the way it was until this year.

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TelCoa’s Top 10 Reasons to Telework©

For the Employer and the Economy:

Create Jobs, improve competitive advantage, and foster the ability to better compete in an increasingly globalized economy via Homeshoring/Homesourcing
Reduce costs: real estate, facilities, direct labor, business travel, and other overhead expenses; notably liability and health insurance
Improve recruiting and retention of skilled labor for enhanced productivity, creativity, and higher quality work product results
Provide hope and economic opportunity (especially in rural areas) for service disabled veterans, others with disabilities, older workers who desire to remain in or reenter the workforce, and for part-time employment reducing reliance on benefit programs

For the Employee:

Better balance family and work responsibilities, become self reliant, and participate more often in local activities
Retain a larger percentage of earnings for a higher quality of life and less dependence on outdated over stressed institutions

For the Environment and Society:

Lower carbon footprints, greenhouse gas emissions, and improve air and water quality
Reduce dependence on foreign energy, especially petroleum
Lessen highway congestion, reduce the need for capital intensive transportation ‘solutions’ (highway, rail, bus, parking garages, security, etc.), and lower ‘rush hour’ transit related accidents and fatalities
Decrease the impact from or likelihood of natural disasters, pandemics, and terrorist events

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