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Telecommute
to Spare the Air
SOHO Central: "SoHo"
is an acronym which stands for Small Office/Home Office. The SOHO Central is the
official WWW address of the Home Office Association of America (HOAA), the
national and local organization for full-time home-based professionals,
telecommuters, and those who use a home office so they can spend more time with
their families. The site includes a newsletter for those who work at home.
Telecentre
Communautaire, Une Solution Pour Le Rural by Marcel-Lucas Mahoukou (Office
National des Postes et Télécommunications du Congo, Africa).A paper on
telecenters and rural development (in French)
Telecommunications
& Travel Research Program by Patricia L. Mokhtarian (Institute of
Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis).
Telecommute
America : The first nationwide public awareness, information and education
program focusing on the benefits of telecommuting & non-traditional work
environments including virtual office, work-at-home, satellite offices, and
more. The site is hosted by AT&T.
Telecommuter Resumes
: A source to simplify your recruiting process. A compilation of the resumes of
candidates who are interested in pursuing careers as Telecommuters / Remote
Workers. Compiled from "Remote Work" list members and presented by:
IndyTrax Internet Promotions.
Telecommuting
- Get off the Road and Get On-line (North Bay Council in Northern
California)
To illustrate the thesis that "commuting is the single most anti-productive
thing we do" Alvin Toffler) they tell an anecdote that puts commuting in
perspective: An eleven year old boy sat at his father's home computer the other
day working jointly on a term paper with a friend across town. The speaker phone
was on, the fax machine was humming, books were open on the floor, and the
computer mouse was flying. The two boys didn't know it but they were
"telecommuting" to jointly write their paper. Now imagine the
response, in ten years' time, when these boys are being interviewed for their
first job at a company that does not allow telecommuting -- "You want me to
get on the freeway at the same time as everyone else and sit in traffic for an
hour so we can work in an office that costs $6,000 per year? Why?"
Telecommuting
in Massachusetts: A Synopsis of the Massachusetts Telecommuting Initiative
by Paul C. Boyd (MCK Communications). During 1994 the Massachusetts Division of
Energy Resources and the Massachusetts Highway Department undertook a project to
study the impacts of telecommuting on the Commonwealth. The project became known
as the Massachusetts Telecommuting Initiative. This research was conducted with
the participation of over 300 respondents from 51 employers. The conclusions
drawn from this research reveal a number of arguments that support and promote
the use of telecommuting.
Telecommuting:
Possible Futures for Urban and Rural Communities by Ray Quay. Telecommuting
is one of the numerous changes resulting from the socialization of information
technologies. This new wave of technology socialization has the potential to
change completely all facets of our current society. This potential change is so
fundamental that there are a variety of possible futures, good and bad, that
could be created.
Gil Gordon Associates -
Telecommuting: A great page that consolidates a wide variety of information
on the subjects of telecommuting, teleworking and flexible work. The objective
is to provide a "one-stop service" for practitioners, researchers,
policy-makers and others interested in this rapidly evolving field.
Do You Want to
Telecommute?: General resources for people who are trying to become a
telecommuter themselves.
Do You Manage
Telecommuters? : Includes a Managers and Management FAQ on telecommuting,
telework and alternative officing, a page on telecommuting tools, a law library,
information on intranets and push technology.
Are You Researching
Telecommuting?
Or Building Your
Skills Further? - For the telecommuting "pro" who is already
familiar with the basics. Here you will find extensive information on Products
and Services.
Telecommuting
Review
Worldwide
Resources
Telecommuting:
Working from Home : A review of telecommuting information and documents
found on the Internet. Presented by the Office of Human Resources at the
Community College of Allegheny County.
Telelearning:
College of the North Atlantic, Clarenville Campus, USA.
Telework:
When all the world is your office by Stephan R. Acker (Ohio State
University, USA).
Telework Development Group
Telework Development System
International Inc. (TDSI)
Telework Solutions:
A full range of consulting services regarding the establishment and daily
operation of for-profit telework centers. They provide technical support,
equipment, and Internet services. It includes a Telework
Center Market Plan.
Teleworking:
Virtual Offices, Real Profits: In this consortium-based benchmarking study
the APQC (the American Productivity and Quality Center) tries to discover best
practices in strategies for teleworking, to identify the telecommuter pool, to
design and deliver effective teleworking programs, and to understand the effect
of teleworking on the bottom line.
Teleworks: From the
MASIE Center, an international thinktank located in Saratoga Springs, NY,
dedicated to exploring the intersection of learning and technology.
Transportation
Implications of Telecommuting: A report, addressing the potential cost and
benefits of telecommuting. It has been prepared by the Department of
Transportation, in consultation with the Department of Energy and the
Environmental Protection Agency. Although the estimates of the future level and
impacts of telecommuting are highly uncertain, telecommuting has the potential
to provide significant transportation-related public benefits in this decade.
"The congestion and air quality improvements potentially attainable through
telecommuting could be substantially diminished if telecommuters removed from
the highways are replaced by the emergence of latent travel demand."
University of
Michigan Telecommuting Task Force: In the Telecommuting
Task Force Report you can read the conclusions and recommendations made by
the task force.
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