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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Public Sector

Federal Government

You Might Be Able to Flex Your Way to a Fatter Paycheck

By Brian O’Connell

Contrary to what ‘some others’ are erroneously reporting, the telework trending is upward during the last half of the first decade on the 21st Century no matter how measured…  one day per month, one day per week, part-time or full-time!

One can only speculate why anyone would suggest there is a downward ‘trend’ in the number of teleworkers???  Perhaps those so reporting have a vested interest with antiquated industrial era work practices, “ STAUTUS QUO” that continues their unique individual interest, cash flows, organizational positioning, etc… rather than supporting job growth, greater employment opportunities regardless of geographic location, and competing more effectively (and fairly) in the emerging global market place.

10/31/12

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Telecommuters Kept Patent Office at 70% Productivity During Hurricane Sandy

By Debra Cassens Weiss

The U.S. patent & Trademark Office due to its Work@Home™ Program was 70% productive during Hurricane Sandy reports both the Washington Post and American Bar Association.

Even these RESULTS are precisely what the Telework Coalition has predicted for the past decade and even those sterling accomplishments could be exceeded if TelCoa’s goal of 40% of the work force worked from home full-time was implement nationally, both in the public and private sectors.   Such a bold initiate would not only achieve job growth, but would very quickly demonstrate improved environmental benefits and huge energy utilization cost avoidances!

Posted Nov 9, 2012

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Posted Nov 9, 2012

 

Virtual Office Failing

By Marion Overholt, By Marion Overholt, The Windsor Star, February 29, 2012

Communications with Service Canada’s employment insurance has suffered connecting difficulties.  Over 9000 complaints to Parliament indicate that the unemployed spend hours on hold and the key remedy is the direct creation of jobs.

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State and Vermont State Employees Association agree on “teleworking” policy

February 9, 2012

There are two overlapping reports for the State’s teleworking policy (No. 11.9) establishing the “basic principles and conditions regarding an employee’s voluntary request to work remotely from an alternate worksite”.  The first report is more in the form of a press release and more specific.

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GSA Soon to Charge Employees for Parking

Written by Ross Wilkers

Jul 25, 2011

Effective Aug. 1, the General Services Administration will charge its employees for parking at federal office buildings and GSA-leased buildings in the National Capital Region.

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