We’ve been sitting on this story for two weeks now because we kept waiting for it to surface in other news outlets. But it hasn’t so we’re going to bust this whole thing wide open. The gist of the story is that, according to Public Law 106-846, federal workers should be allowed to telecommute “to [...]
Archive for the ‘Telecommuting’ Category
Left Behind
Change is painful, isn’t it? We’re not surprised at all at the findings in this study. We see it everyday when we speak at companies with traditional work environments. People who have less freedom resent the people who have more. But what interests us about this piece is the paragraph toward the end that proposes [...]
Home? Office? Both?
Charming piece by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, who writes a workplace trend blog for TIME. She talks about the gossip you miss by working at home. (She is also working on her snack-hoarding problem . . . wink.) One thing we’d like to add to the conversation is the following prediction: there will come a time [...]
Telecommuting, Jealousy and You
We were catching up on our work-life balance editorials the other day when the following jumped out at us: “In a survey of 46 studies looking at 12,883 employees, the authors found that telecommuting improved job satisfaction, performance, turnover and stress, and did not harm career prospects. Telecommuting, more than half of the time, did [...]
Modern Working Environment: Tools & Techniques for Virtual Managers
June 13, 12 p.m. CDT
