Archive for the 'Telecommuting' Category

This isn’t the main thrust of the article, but I found this interesting: General Services Administration chief Lurita Doan expressed strong support for the idea, saying she’d like to see half of all eligible employees at the GSA telecommuting by 2010. Related link: You can start working at home with this special offer. 

Georgia Employers may be eligible for a tax credit worth up to $20,000 for helping their employees telework. You can read more here… Georgia is the first state in the nation to offer a teleworking tax credit for the 2008 tax year, but employers must act quickly to take advantage of the credit before the [...]

Lots of people dream about being able to live anywhere or work anywhere. They usually mean relocating and moving their junk from point A to point B. Or at least getting new junk at point B. Here’s the advice of someone who lives out of a large suitcase and works from a laptop computer. What [...]

Here’s a conversation over at Web Worker Daily on that subject. Here were some comments folks passed on: Comment 1: The trick is the same as what you need to get a good [Real Life]  job: networking. What changes is the venue. Between my advocacy work, forum participation, and (regrettably small) clipbook, I find myself [...]

It would help if federal employees stopped losing their laptop computers… From Information Week Telework ExchangeSM, a public-private partnership, found that 94% of federal chief information security officers don’t think telework programs are a threat to security. Still, 63% said that securing mobile devices is their top priority, according to the study (PDF), which Hewlett-Packard(HP) [...]

Full time telecommuters are actually rare – 2% of the workforce. Here is one who is a full time internal auditor. Living east of her job’s base in San Francisco, she gets a jump on the business day which may help too. From the Great Falls Montana Tribune: Her computer hooks into the company’s computer [...]

I found this amazing – 42% of IBM’s 350,000 employees could work at home? Evidently according to the ABC report. It saves them $100 million in real estate costs annually. There are drawbacks however – some joke that IBM means “I’m By Myself”. Now they have to schedule time to get together to build camaraderie. [...]

They’re 70 million strong and so used to having their own way they it’s downright annoying. But they have skills and employers need them. In fact, the futurist guru’s say there’ll be a huge shortage of workers (10 million or so) within the next 20 years. Generation Y is  so mobile, they may – quite [...]

When you talk to most people in government economic development settings they universally think “work at home jobs” are universally “scams”. I guess that will have change now that the State of Virginia is actually creating some work at home jobs. In order to bring new jobs to areas of high unemployment, the State of [...]

Most of the work at home opportunities I’m familiar with require the rep to purchase their own broadband and landline service and deduct the costs from their income tax return. Evidently that’s not always true according to this research. From Silicon.com This begs the question – who then pays for the home broadband and who [...]