June 17, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
IT shops that are still battling tight budgets or hiring freezes during this economic downturn could be looking for a way to get more done with an understaffed department. One solution:
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Tags: balance, Brigham Young University, study, telecommuting, work. life
February 15, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck

Businesses on the East Coast got a taste of what a small natural disaster can do to productivity and communication when back-to-back blizzards struck. The heroes of the week — besides road crews and power company employees? Companies with telecommuting programs.
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Tags: blizzard, calculator, program, remote, telecommuting, Telework Research Network, workers
November 2, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck

First the General Accountability Office sounded the alarm about a flu pandemic and its potential to cripple the Internet, and now one of the IT industry’s preeminent analyst groups is adding its voice to the alarm.
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Tags: flu, Gartner, General Accountability Office, Pandemic, swine flu, telecommuting, work at home
April 29, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
The flu pandemic threat is making telecommuting a hot topic yet again. The organizations that are ahead of the curve in creating these programs have a leg up already, say telework experts.
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Tags: calculator, cost, Pandemic, swine flu, telecommuting, Telework Coalition
March 27, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Is your organization trying to figure out if a telecommuting program will be worth the time and trouble? There’s a free tool that can help.
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Tags: calculator, formula, morale, recruitment, retention, savings, telecommuting, tool
March 19, 2009 by Sam Narisi
Here’s a downside of telecommuting programs that might give companies second thoughts: They may cause non-telecommuters to quit their jobs.
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Tags: office workers, telecommuting
August 15, 2008 by Sam Narisi
Telecommuting sounds great to a lot of finance and IT employees. But how many employers offer the arrangement?
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Tags: benefits, gas, telecommuting, work at home
August 11, 2008 by Valerie Helmbreck

In a perfect world, you might have more choices like this one: We’ll give you a decent raise, or you can pass up the money and work from home some of the time.
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Tags: costs, pay, raise, recruitment, retention, security, telecommuting