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Forty Percent of Employees Willing to Cut Pay to Work from Home
July 18, 2011- Business News Daily
Results of a July report from Staples Advantage online. 74% are willing to relinquish between 2 to 5% of their salary to work at home.
What does the new economy mean for the shape of communities?
BY KAID BENFIELD – FEBRUARY 6, 2012
What does the ‘new economy’ mean for the shape and futures of communities? How do we live and work together in this new age with increasing financial challenges and growing populations? Will manufacturing and customer service jobs return to the United States?
This article strongly echoes what the members of TelCoa have been suggesting and advocating for more than a decade ~ that trusted institutions …educational, healthcare, retail, and workplaces all need to change, along with governmental services, taxation systems, and regulatory apparatus – including judicial review and their findings – to better monitor and verify the results, while rooting out those who are mischievously abusing the resources we all depend upon.
No longer must we bind ourselves to expensive vulnerable and often unnecessary physical ‘transportation solutions’ born in mid-nineteenth century and status quo P³’s (policies, processes, and procedures) developed under the oft discredited philosophies of Marx, Engels, Keynes, and other quixotic dreamers.
Will We Need Any More Office Space?
By Tim Trainor -December 21, 2011
These BOMA comments, findings, and recommendations are rooted in TelCoa’s ‘playbook’ of the last decade plus! The ‘key’ to the future of work is ‘WE’ as in Work Environment ~ Work@Home™; work from anywhere (any place that suits you); work anytime (that you ‘spark with great ideas for innovation and reformulation’); be prepared to fulfill both your work and family responsibilities whatever nature throws at you (Snowmageddon!); all the while reducing dependence on petroleum imports, expensive, and time consuming ‘transportation solutions’ left over from the early industrial era…
Plantronics Smartens up its Headquarters for Remote Workers
By Mary Catherine O’Connor – December 15, 2011
It is time for companies to get creative about boosting creativity. Smart companies like Plantronics are breeding productivity through flexible working enviornments.
Clarkson Business Center Temporarily Suspends Daily Hours
September 21, 2011
By PETER CROWLEY – Managing Editor (pcrowley@adirondackdailyenterprise.com)
Clarkson Universities Business Center will reopen in the next 10-14 days using cost saving volunteers. Telecommuters and small businesses were not utilizing the space as they preferred to work from home.
Fairfield County Businesses Offer More Telecommute Options
Editor Chris Rueli: Christopher.Rueli@patch.com
One third of CFO’s have increased their remote work in the past 3 years according to Accountemps. Increasing numbers of companies are encouraging telecommuting as an option. The most common professionals include accountants, architects, economists, journalists, researchers, consultants and stockbrokers.
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Telecommute Nation: If Half of Us Could Work Remotely, Why Don’t We?
July 22, 2011 By Derek Thompson
More than 34 million people — equal to the population of Texas and Pennsylvania combined — work from home occasionally. Twice as many could if they wanted. In the next few years, maybe they will.
Seeking Loyal, Devoted Workers? Let Them Stay Home
July 11, 2011 By ANDREA COOMBES
A recent survey finds that workers who telecommute from home or elsewhere, while still a very small portion of the work force, report the highest levels of satisfaction with their jobs and loyalty to their employers. In the poll of about 10,000 U.S. workers, 73% of remote and home-based workers said they were satisfied with their company as a place to work, compared with 64% of office workers.
Press Release:
June 27, 2011
Outdated Business Management Practices Block Flexible Work Styles, Hinder Competitiveness
New Report Shows That America’s Employers Cling to 1950s-style Management Practices
“Come on America, something needs to change — and that something is senior management attitudes towards new work styles. It’s time to join the 21st century and focus on work as a thing we do, not a place we go. With that mindset, every business could become more dynamic and competitive overnight.”, Brett Caine, President, Citrix Online
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Telework Levels the Field for Some Rural Minnesotans
March 24, 2011, by Jennifer Vogel, Minnesota Public Radio
…Rural communities, dying for success stories… They are hoping that better connectivity will make it feasible for more people to live and work farther from the city. They hope it’ll stave off a pattern of out-migration that’s been draining young people from their towns and farms for a century… “Fueled by broadband adoption, better collaboration tools, and growing management experience,” by 2016, 43 percent of American workers will work from home at least one day per week.
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Click here to read the text of legislation proposing telework tax credits in Minnesota.
Virtual medicine as effective as physical doc visits
Webcam doctor visits called convenient, and save time and money
March 21, 2011, By Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
Results of a five-year study on telemedicine showed that patients can be treated virtually by physicians as effectively as if the patients made physical visits to the doctor’s office. In another finding, the remote treatment also improved doctor-patient communication
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How Telecommuting Lets Workers Mobilize for Sustainability
March 2, 2011 by EBR, Energy Business Daily
Over the years, telecommuting has proven to deliver significant societal, environmental and economic benefits. Many organizations have recognized the gains as a boon to promoting sustainable business practices and their bottom lines. While a recent survey found that less than 4 percent of U.S. private sector workers actually work from home, that figure could reach as high as 30 percent by 2019, according to TechCast, a George Washington University–based virtual think tank.
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This article provides many interesting and informative statistics which further bolster TelCoa’s IT + P³ = E³ ™ formula for Successful Work Today and Tomorrow.
