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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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Ask the Work@Home™ Experts

Ask the Work@Home™ Experts –

If you are interested in any of the following areas, you can formulate and present you questions to the staff of TelCoa and we will do our best to find answers for you:

screening, selecting, or retaining the employees best suited to succeed in the distributed work environment;
learning how best to train, update, and include the your teleworkers in the greater community of fellow workers;
designing the most highly productive, safe, and secure (both information and physical security) home office environment;
establishing mutually agreeable policies for ‘who pays of what’, what technology is used (or not used), and the ‘Rules of the Telework Highway™’;
keeping up-to-date on available regional and local telework incentives, proposed/pending telework-centric legislation, and related issues not readily addressed within the body of information contained literature provided.

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