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Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about teleworking or telecommuting.
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- 'Telework Forum: Bringing home the benefits of teleworking using the NBN' outcomes report
- The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) held a Telework Forum in Sydney on 3 August 2011 to highlight the benefits of increased working from home arrangements. The consensus among the 275 participants from industry, government and academia was that the NBN would give effect to the idea that 'work is what you do, not where you do it'.
Added: 10 November 2011
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- Next-Generation Telework: A Literature Review
- Paper prepared for the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, by Deloitte Access Economics, July 2011. A review of international academic papers and other high-quality research that establishes the current worldwide uptake of telework, its benefits and its challenges.
Added: 10 November 2011
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- Telework will play a big role in government digital strategy, federal CIO says
- By Joseph Marks. NextGov, May 11, 2012. "The forthcoming digital government strategy will include telework as a major component, federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel told lawmakers and technology contractors Friday. The federal digital strategy, which VanRoekel said will be released soon, is a combination of two strategies the White House has been working on: one to reform, consolidate and renew the federal Web presence and another to update the way the government manages mobile devices and applications. The government has increasingly looked to mobile technologies to enable telework and to ramp up the efficiency of teleworking employees..."
Added: 17 May 2012;
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- Barriers to Telework Remain, Survey Finds
- By Sarah Rich. Government Technology, November 21, 2011. "A new study revealed that 69 percent of federal employees said the federal government telework progress is not improving fast enough. Government IT media group Fedscoop's teleworking study Telework 2011: Federal Government and Industry Outlook on Telework, released earlier this month, surveyed more than 300 IT executives from the federal government and private sector on where they stand with teleworking implementation. The study was sponsored by HP and Intel..."
Added: 29 November 2011;
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- Telework 2011 - in pdf format (2834kb)
- Federal Government and Industry Outlook on Telework. FedScoop, November 2011. "This survey assesses current attitudes and practices of telework in the federal sector, and ways technology can improve operations..."
Added: 29 November 2011;
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- Mobile workforce presents new challenges for employers
- By Peter Dinham. ITWire, Friday, 25 November 2011. "Transformation in workforce demographics is changing the Australian workplace, and the rapid adoption of mobile and remote access technologies is expected to dramatically redefine the face of the workplace over the next 12 months... According to a panel of human resource IT industry experts, Australia's rapid take-up of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices during 2011, plus the rise of cloud-based software that allow employees to access corporate systems via an internet connection, are increasing the rate at which organisations make the shift to a more flexible, mobile workforce..."
Added: 25 November 2011;
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- Telework: Weighing the Information, Determining an Appropriate Approach - in pdf format (3689kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). A Report to the President and the Congress of the United States by the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, October 2011. "... The results of our study confirm that telework can result in many benefits for organizations and employees alike. Further, and of critical importance, our findings indicate that the benefits of telework can occur while maintaining productivity and performance, if telework is managed appropriately. A key step that organizations must take in implementing an effective telework program is to ensure supervisors have the necessary skills and support to manage performance in a telework environment. Good performance management skills will be critical for enabling supervisors to make wise decisions about using telework in their work units and ensuring fair treatment of teleworkers and nonteleworkers. In addition, the organizational leadership must foster a culture that is conducive to telework, and ensure a well thought- out technology infrastructure that allows for access to necessary business tools and continuity in work unit dynamics. Flexibility in perspective about telework will be key, as will continuous evaluation of the effectiveness of telework. These strategies will be critical for realizing the benefits of telework and mitigating concerns..."
Added: 3 November 2011;
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- Telework Pros vs. Cons
- By Brittany Ballenstedt. NextGov, 1 November 2011. "The General Services Administration on Monday announced a groundbreaking new telework policy that presumes all GSA employees are eligible to telework. And according to a new report by the Merit Systems Protection Board, GSA and other agencies that embrace telework are on the right track to maintaining productivity and performance and boosting mission accomplishment..."
Added: 3 November 2011;
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- GSA begins major telework push
- By Camille Tuutti. Federal Computer Week, October 31, 2011. "Top government officials have unveiled a new telework policy that aims to eventually empower the entire workforce to be more mobile and agile for the 21st century economy..."
Added: 2 November 2011;
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- GSA Mobility and Telework Policy - in pdf format (291kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). U.S. General Services Administration. 31 October 2011. Update HCO 6040.1. GSA Order. "Purpose. Work is what we do, not where we are. With this core belief, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is taking a leadership role in utilizing mobility to most effectively accomplish our goals and meet our mission. With this policy, GSA is preparing itself to model, consult, and guide itself and the entire Federal government on essential workplace and workforce transformation. GSA recognizes mobility as an overarching term describing the ability of employees, enabled by the robustness of information technology and progressive workplace policies, to perform work both within and outside the agency worksite as defined in this policy. It includes a range of separate and distinct modes of work, including: - Alternative Officing (desk sharing, hoteling, hot desking); - Conference attendance; - Mobile work (site audits, client visits, site inspections, etc.); - Satellite work; - Telework; - Training; - Emergency Situations; - Travel; and - Virtual and distributed work. These work modes allow flexibility in the selection of the space and place that is most appropriate for an individual employee‟s work at any given time..."
Added: 2 November 2011;
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- National Digital Economy Strategy - Telework
- Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. "Increased teleworking - Digital Economy Goal: by 2020, Australia will have at least doubled its level of teleworking so that at least 12 per cent of Australian employees report having a teleworking arrangement with their employer..."
Added: 2 November 2011;
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- The changing nature of work: Australian National Telework Week
- By Tim Fawcett. Open Forum, Tuesday, 25 October 2011. "CISCO General Manager Government Affairs & Policy, Tim Fawcett, makes the case for Australia to follow the United States' lead and create a National Telework Week. In the US more than 35,000 businesses and organisations pledge to allow employees to work from home for a week, saving them money and the atmosphere from 1600 tons of pollutants. At the recent Global Access Partners' (GAP) National Economic Review at Parliament House in Sydney, only one issue was put to a vote in the "bear pit" and that vote saw unanimous support for an Australian telework week..."
Added: 2 November 2011;
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- When roadwork can do no more good, telework can be a solution
- By Camille Tuutti. Federal Computer Week, October 19, 2011. "The physical and financial limits of building and maintaining roads provide a good argument for telework, according to Virginia Transportation Secretary Sean Connaughton. “We don’t have the money or the physical ability to expand the system anymore,” he said. “Anyone driving up and down [Interstates] 395 or 95 [would] recognize you can’t go out any further. 66, we can’t go out any further. That’s why telework is such an important, important part of the future of this region, across the state, across the country.”..."
Added: 20 October 2011;
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- Mobile work is about more than secure laptops
- By Joseph Marks. NextGov, 18 October 2011. "Concerns about workers telecommuting with personal laptops and smartphones don't end with those systems' comparatively lax security, officials said Tuesday. There also are a host of policy questions that need to be answered in case security problems do emerge, either because of a malicious cyberattack or because the device simply goes haywire with government data in it..."
Added: 20 October 2011;
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- Telework Forum: Bringing Home the Benefits of Teleworking Using the NBN
- The Australian Government announced its National Digital Economy Strategy on 31 May 2011. One of its Digital Economy Goals is that by 2020 Australia will have doubled the level of teleworking so that at least 1 in 8 Australian employees (i.e., 12 per cent) report teleworking arrangements with their employers. Included in the strategy is the government's intention to host a telework forum to help identify how Australian businesses and government agencies can use the catalyst of the National Broadband Network (NBN) to boost the teleworking rate. The Telework Forum: Bringing Home the Benefits of Teleworking Using the NBN is on Wednesday 3 August in Sydney. It will showcase Australian businesses and government agencies that are using telework to improve business performance. The forum will highlight the capacity organisations have to realise benefits through increased working from home arrangements, and how the NBN will make this even easier. Using the NBN, organisations will have a much greater capacity to realise the workforce participation, environmental and economic advantages made possible by arranging for employees to work from home. Participants at the forum will also workshop the development of telework in Australia. Speakers at the Telework Forum will include Senator Stephen Conroy together with representatives from Deloitte Access Economics, Gartner, IP Australia, CISCO, Unity4, IBM, the Australian Network on Disability and the Australian Information Industry Association.
Added: 15 July 2011;
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- Government moves to get Australia teleworking with NBN
- By Stuart Corner. IT Wire, Monday, 4 July 2011. "The Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy in conjunction with the AIIA is to host a telework forum to help identify how Australian businesses and government agencies can use the catalyst of the NBN to boost the teleworking rate..."
Added: 5 July 2011;
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- Why the blurry work/life boundary is not a bad thing
- By Ted Schadler. Federal Computer Week, May 2, 2011. "It's no surprise that today's employees live online, using the Internet to manage their personal lives while at the office. What might come as a shock, however, is that the majority of employees give that time back by using broadband connections, mobile devices and collaboration tools to remain productive any time and from any location. This means that employees are creating their own work/life balance by staying connected wherever they are..."
Added: 5 May 2011;
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