• Telecommuting News Summary 062909
Remote Workers Are Happier Workers: Cisco
TMCnet – 2 hours ago
You’d be in good company, too, as more companies are experimenting with various telecommuting strategies to save costs and retain top talent. …
Apple CEO Steve Jobs Returns to Work
HR News Now – 2 hours ago
The ability to telecommute, which is being put to use in the case of Jobs, is a work arrangement in which employees enjoy flexibility in working location …
Tuesday is an Ozone Alert Day
KRMG – – 3 hours ago
Walk, bike, carpool, ride the bus or telecommute. – Avoid long idle times. Walk in rather than drive thru. – Postpone refueling. Wait until evening or not …
Energy bill should energize change
TelephonyOnline – – 3 hours ago
… telework solutions that keep cars off freeways and collaboration technologies that let office workers easily work with colleagues in other sites all can …
Tulsa Under Ozone Alert Today
News On 6 – 4 hours ago
Monday’s ozone levels in Tulsa are ruled to be unhealthy for sensitive groups like those with asthma. TULSA, OK — The Oklahoma Department of Environmental …
Environmental benefits (or not) of the Cash for Clunkers program
Examiner.com – 4 hours ago
Using mass transit or telecommuting also causes a reduction in individual fuel use. None of those possible transportation choices receive any incentive …
Media Ignore Further Questions Over Obama-Fired Inspector Gen Walpin
NewsBusters – – 5 hours ago
Regarding the telecommuting issue, York recounts that, according to his source, “the board did not tell Walpin he couldn’t telecommute. …
Cisco saves $277 million with telework
FierceCIO – – 6 hours ago
“Our main intent was to really evaluate the social, economic and environmental impacts associated with telecommuting,” Rami Mazid, vice president of global …
David Boggs: Drive less to boost state’s air quality
Arizona Republic – – 6 hours ago
David Boggs is executive director of Valley Metro Regional Public Transportation Authority, which provides bus, carpool, vanpool, bicycle and telecommuting …
Cisco Systems Study Shows the Benefits of Telecommuting
Comtex Smartrend – – 7 hours ago
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) conducted a study where the company examined the telecommuting activities of nearly 2000 …
Guest List — Sunday, July 5
msnbc.com – – 7 hours ago
Find out how telecommuting can work for your business. Kim Zoller, President & founder of Image Dynamics, a total-solution outsourced training and …
DIDX: Make Money While You Sleep Without All the Stigma
TMCnet – – 8 hours ago
By the way, considering the current global economic trends, outsourcing and telecommuting tools are once again a very hot commodity – considering the huge …
EcoBlu Products, Inc. – Great Future for Environmentally Friendly …
TMCnet – 8 hours ago
The study, conducted to evaluate the social, economic and environmental impacts associated with telecommuting at Cisco, revealed that a majority of …
How to Value the Advertising-Supported Internet
Bloomberg – – 9 hours ago
… quantify but including the power of access to information as well as greater flexibility in balancing work and family obligations through telecommuting. …
Telecommuting Series: Legitimate companies that offer “work at …
Examiner.com – 9 hours ago
Companies that offer good telecommuting jobs or work from home opportunities typically don’t spend a lot of money advertising it. Some do, most don’t. …
Digital age: What it means for energy’s future
Calgary Herald – 9 hours ago
And new “telework” tools are obsolescing the need to put in “face time” at the office by allowing workers to be productive from home or any remote location. …
Riding The Rail: Plenty Of Time To Ponder Search
Search Engine Land – – 12 hours ago
As it is on the train, if I mix in a little telecommuting and a minimum of driving (sans ice pick), it’s pretty tolerable. …
SMEs defy downturn with continued investment in comms
ComputerWeekly.com – – 14 hours ago
The small businesses have, however, revealed reticence in implementing some critical communications technologies, such as telecommuting and mobility. …
Investing in our future
ComputerworldUK – – 15 hours ago
Whereas, at that time, Gartner was forecasting that “WiMax access solutions that are suitable for enterprise users that telecommute from rural areas (or …
Remote working ups productivity, satisfaction – Cisco survey …
Telecompaper – 15 hours ago
The Teleworker Survey looked at 2000 employees to evaluate the social, economic and environmental impacts associated with telecommuting at Cisco. …
Uncle Sam Is Generally A Boss You Can Rely On
Hartford Courant – – 16 hours ago
•Family-friendly policies — These include flexible work schedules, telecommuting, part-time jobs and job sharing. Federal employees also enjoy first …
Cisco Promotes Telecommuting
ITvoir – 17 hours ago
Cisco has revealed it has garnered more than $277 million in productivity savings by letting employees work from home using the company’s own virtual office …
Maybe flex time really is worthy of passion
Houston Chronicle – – 18 hours ago
It’s a yearly event that encourages local companies to allow their workers to try flexible commute options—a compressed work week, telecommuting or flexible …
Third Spare the Air Day in a row called for Monday
San Jose Mercury News – – 19 hours ago
To help prevent smog, the district asks area residents to carpool, telecommute by working from home instead of driving to work, link necessary trips and …
As I See It: Oh the Jobs They Are a-Changin’
IT Jungle – – 21 hours ago
Telecommuting, flextime, and lateral moves that require less travel are just three ways employees are customizing their careers. The old model that required …
Survey ranks Calgary as No. 1 for parking costs
CTV British Columbia – Jun 28, 2009
“Promoting car pooling and public transit, including subsidizing employee fares, and providing company car-share programs, telecommuting solutions, …
Cisco Promotes Telecommuting
PC World – – Jun 28, 2009
Not only does Cisco’s telecommuting technology help the company save on collaboration technologies, but also the company’s telework program makes employees …
Ways to restore your teetering work-life balance
Business Daily Africa – – Jun 28, 2009
The changes can include flex time, job-sharing, telecommuting, or part-time employment. Your first step is to research your employer’s policies and methods …
Register Now for Green Commute Challenge
Kansas City infoZine – Jun 28, 2009
… work — carpooling, biking, riding the bus, walking and telecommuting — and to find other ways to reduce their driving, such as staying in for lunch. …
Top library jobs restructured
Tulsa World – – Jun 28, 2009
In January, the commission agreed to allow Saferite to telecommute up to two days a week. She works from her Tulsa or Grand Lake-area home every Friday and …
Potential Employer Benefits
Examiner.com – Jun 27, 2009
The following potential employer benefits are often cited as reasons, motivations, or justifications for implementation of telecommuting programs. …
Ericsson in 4G talks with ME operators
ArabianBusiness.com – Jun 27, 2009
”These will include not only Internet telephones and videophones, but also easy teleconferencing, practical telecommuting, medical services such as remote …
BharathContractJobs.com: Millions Of Visitors Benefit From New …
OfficialWire (press release) – – Jun 27, 2009
Number one Job portal in India for finding Contract Jobs, Telecommuting and Part time, SAP, Oracle, Java, VB Jobs adds new features for …
Ericsson in talks with region’s mobile operators to launch 4G services
AME Info – Jun 27, 2009
These will include not only Internet telephones and videophones, but also easy teleconferencing, practical telecommuting, medical services such as remote …
Telecommuting has benefits – for the disciplined
Telegraph-Journal – – Jun 27, 2009
Despite the positive attention and federal dollars thrust upon the concept of telecommuting, a Montreal mom and a researcher from the University of Waterloo …
Wittman seeking secure centers
The Free Lance-Star – – Jun 26, 2009
A bill passed by the House of Representatives Thursday gives federal workers with security clearances their own telework centers in the …
Cisco Says Telecommuting Saves Money, and the World
Fast Company – – Jun 26, 2009
Good news for homebodies: A Cisco survey of 2000 people worldwide has revealed that employees who telecommute …
Seven Deadly Sins of Home Office Security
ITworld.com – – Jun 26, 2009
ROCs lease individual offics, internet and phone systems to workers who want to telecommute but are concerned about the quality of facilities in a home …
BART strikes looms
San Francisco Bay Guardian – – Jun 26, 2009
A strike would leave many commuters without options, aside from ferries, telecommuting, or throwing up a thumb on the Bay Bridge. …
Potential BART strike might impact area commuters
Examiner.com – Jun 26, 2009
Other options that the Sacramento commuter may want to think about is starting out to work earlier and/or telecommuting if available. …
Cinergy MetroNet coming to Wabash
Wabash Plain Dealer – – Jun 26, 2009
He said, ‘Wabash is a place where you can telecommute to anywhere.’ “You already have that quality of life that makes people want to live here,” Biggerstaff …
The Climate Bill is Essential, But Won’t Break US Oil Dependence
Reuters – – Jun 26, 2009
This could be achieved through increased funding for public transit and incentivizing carpooling and telecommuting in the short term, and implementing …
Technology giant Cisco says work at home jobs save millions of dollars
Examiner.com – Jun 26, 2009
Cisco, technology giant, claims to have saved an estimated $277 million in productivity by allowing employees to telecommute, telework, or work at home. …
Cisco’s Take on Telecommuting and Productivity
WebWorkerDaily – Jun 26, 2009
In a recent post, I blogged about the telecommuting trend, including a data point from a WorldatWork study that found a 39 percent increase in the number of …
StockSource.us: Todays — Eco-Friendly – Stock Pick: EcoBlu …
Trading Markets (press release) – Jun 26, 2009
The study, conducted to evaluate the social, economic and environmental impacts associated with telecommuting at Cisco, revealed that a majority of …
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