Heads up if your in SoCal.
“The Bottom Line and the Remote Workforce” CREW-Orange County event this Monday, March 14th. This dynamic panel will give you relevant knowledge about the mobile workforce, and how it impacts companies, employees, the community and what that all means to the corporate real estate profession. Early registration ends Thursday, March 10th. Register at here
Kate’s a panelist.
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Very pleased to come across your web site! I think the time for boosting telework is now, given the continued spikiness of oil and gas prices. I’m part of a coalition that wrote a white paper on it, I would be interested in your thoughts: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/dlovaas/saving_gas_and_reducing_traffi.html
Many thanks,
Deron
Sorry for the slow response, it was because we’re just finishing up a whitepaper of our own (Sponsored by Citrix Online) titled The State of Telework in the U.S. It’s a look at the telework trends over the last 5 years, and offers some prognostications about where it’s going. Found some very interesting details, many unexpected. Citrix will probably release it later this month.
I was amazed at how similar the referenced whitepaper is to our web content, although many of our assumptions and thus our conclusions differ. Their assumption that a typical teleworker will work at home just 2 days a month, for example, is far from the national average of 2.4 days per week for those with a formal arrangement to be paid for their work time at home…and that’s from a BLS supplement to the Current Population Survey published way back in 2004. Still, not everyone has such a formal work at home agreement. In fact, a recent survey showed that while 83% of companies of ad hoc WAH arrangements, only 37% offer it as a full-time situation.
In any event, thanks for stopping by. The white paper made for some interesting reading.