USA
ADSL Forum: A forum that wants to help
telephone companies and their suppliers develop and market ADSL (asymmetric
digital subscriber line) technology. The site offers short explanations of all
DSL technologies, the system environment for ADSL, and the basic futures of the
ADSL market.
Advocates for Remote
Employment and the Virtual Office (AREVO) : The mission is to promote the
economic, personal and environmental benefits of remote employment and the
virtual office to employers, workers and society as a whole. The site contains
definitions and brief explanations of remote employment and virtual office along
with a concise articulation of the benefits to employers, workers, and society
as a whole.
Alternative Work
Environments (AVE): Distributed Workforce. AWE specializes in telecommuting,
mobile computing, and virtual office solutions. Headquartered in Conshohocken,
Pennsylvania (Greater Philadelphia Area).
American
Telecommuting Association (ATA): How to join ATA. Including good information
and encouragement.
Beyond Telecommuting : A new paradigm for the Effect of
Telecommunications on Travel by John S. Niles. An informative discussion of why
telecommunications tends to favor suburban development patterns.
Business@Home: An online
gathering spot and information resource for the working-from-home community.
California Department
of Personnel Administration: Teleworking: Documentation of the California
government telework program.
Distributed
Work Arrangements: Impacts of Advanced Information Technologies, Work
Coordination Mechanisms, and Communication Requirements by France Bélanger
(Information Systems and Decision Sciences, University of South Florida, USA).
Environmental
and Social Impacts of Telecommuting and Teleactivities by Jason Marcus
(University of California, Santa Cruz).
Escape
Artist : One Thousand & One Telecommuting & Home Office Resources.
Extreme Telecommuting:
An office Odyssey by Sid and Kristianne. "Extreme Telecommuting is when you
telecommute from every place all the time. Not only are you not tied to the
corporate office, you're not even tied to a house. You fire up the laptop, grab
the Acoustic Koupler, jump into the van, and head out on the highway. You've got
maps, your fly rod, a cell phone, cigarette-lighter adapters up the yazoo, and
all you need is the odd Kinko's, a payphone here and there, and a good friend to
do it with."
FIND/SVP is a worldwide
research, advisory & business intelligence service. It is a resource for
executives who want to keep informed and stay ahead of the competition. From
quick consulting to in-depth studies and custom analysis, their specialists
claim to have the answers you need.
Hard@Work:
Concentrate:How to concentrate on your work. Tips that will help you
"stay focused" and get rid of distractions.
Home Sweet
Home - Sweet Work? by Sara Pitman. A paper that explores issues of
telecommuting from a worker's perspective, looking at how telework will affect
the currently separate spheres of home, work and family. Specifically focusing
on the roles of women in the home and family and how they will be affected by
these changes.
Home Worker: An
interactive vehicle that allows you to ask questions, seek answers and speak
about the problems and opportunities homeworkers encounter every day. Editor:
Linda Molnar.
How Remote Workers
Impact Office Space by Ken Robertson. In: Telework 5(2), March/April 1997,
published by KLR Consulting Inc.
International Workplace
Studies Program at Cornell University. Major research program on the Office
of the Future. Some pioneering studies of hoteling and non-territorial offices;
telework centers-satellite offices; home-based telecommuting; collaborative
workplace strategies; new placemakers (unconventional workplace providers).
Institute for the Study of
Distributed Work (ISDW): A non-profit organizational learning and research
center dedicated to the furthering of increased worker productivity, efficient
use of physical space, appropriate design and use of technology, improved
employee contentment through distributed work, telecommuting, and distance
learning. The site provides research reports on distributed work and a library
of resources.
International Homework
Association (IHA): The Homeworkers Association's services for homeworkers in
the United States and Canada, including insurance, information, a place to share
strategies, and discounted tools for your business. Potential employers can list
job openings.
International Telework
Association & Council (ITAC): A non-profit organization dedicated to
promoting the economic, social and environmental benefits of telecommuting.
Their members share information about the telecommuting program and policy
design, development of the U.S. telecommuting sector, implementation of
telecommuting programs and telecommuting research.
June Langhoff's Telecommuting
Resource Center
Jala International: An
international group of management consultants in California (USA). Their mission
is to help organizations make effective use of information technology and to
better cope with the accellerating rate of change in the business environment.
JALA's activities are in four main areas: telework, applied futures research,
technology assessment and regional telecommunications planning. Co-founder and
president of Jala is Jack Nilles, who coined the terms telecommuting and
teleworking in 1973 during the first documented pilot telecommuting project. In
Some common - and not so
common - telework/telecommuting questions Jack Nilles's answers and
comments.
MCK Communications: A provider
of remote-voice solutions. Their site contains links to telecommuting
experts/consultants and industry links.
Network
Nation Revisited by David Belson. A thesis presented to the faculty of
Stevens Institute of Technology. In 1978 Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoffo
wrote a seminal text on Computer Mediated Communication, "The Network
Nation". They prognosticated what the future of Computer Mediated
Communication would be. Belsen examines each of the 14 predictions made by Hiltz
and Turoff, and evaluates each of them relative to the developments that have
taken place with regard to Computer Mediated Communication over the past 16
years.
The New
Workplace: A paper on the 'office of the future' (work anywhere, anytime).
How some companies are making it all happen, through means such as telecommuting
and hoteling.
On
Telecommuting : A PS Enterprises Research Paper.
Recursos Para El Teletrabajo:
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