Topic: Telecommuting

There's No Place (to Work) Like Home

And that's why it's so hard to work with people who go to the office. Christena Nippert-Eng is an expert on home office problems -- and solutions.READ»

$10 Gas! The National Work+Life Flex Strategy

Some experts are beginning to predict that gas prices could climb as high as $10 a gallon in the next two to three years.  However, all of the solutions under consideration, such as developing alternative sources of energy, will ...READ»

Give Employees the Space They Need

Your best employees want elbow room -- and they’ll leave you if they don’t get it. Here are four ideas for keeping them happy.READ»

What We Know and Don't Know About the Workplace and Workforce of the Future

Whipping up a last-minute Blog Jam contribution, I quickly note the guidelines: my post must "relate to Fast Company's core themes of innovation, leadership, change, and business." Fair enough. I normally blog about a wide variety ...READ»

Security Changes Leading to Increase in Telecommuting?

Some Recommendations for Making it Work I’m not an advocate of changing your lifestyle due to the fear of attack. So now I can’t bring my lip gloss and big bottle of water on flights. I’m already feeling a little chapped, but ...READ»

Telecommute Your Illusion

Working at home can be a source of anxiety for those just taking the step. At the same time, there are steps you can take to become a successful telecommuter. Regardless, as Mike points out in Techdirt, telecommuting can have ...READ»

Career Planning by Spam

I get a lot of email, which means that I get a lot of spam. This morning, I got into work to a spam that made me smile. Sent by the Job Research Dept. in Ireland, the email featured the subject line "Top 10 Best Paying Online Jobs," ...READ»

Work/Life: NYC Versus Kentucky—One Resists Flexibility, the Other Embraces It. Who Wins?

First, let’s establish that the horses have been let out of the “flexibility barn.” Whether we like it or not, flexibility is fundamentally reshaping how and where we live and work. Yet, while some communities are choosing ...READ»

Telecommuting: Still A Long Distance Away?

Rahm Emanuel has a lot of great ideas to goose the economy. Telecommuting may not be one of them.READ»

SonicWALL's Telecommuting Calculator Reports How Much You Save by Working From Home

Telecommuting: it's good for the environment, great for your employer's checkbook, and even better for your burning desire to work in pajamas. It's not always easy to convince your boss to let  you telecommute, though, which is ...READ»

Work From Home and Pass The Gas

Can you imagine what the world would be like with 53 million fewer cars on the road every day? This isn't just pie in the sky, it could happen if more people worked from home. Our research shows that 5 million Americans (not ...READ»

Making Flextime Work

According to Catalyst, getting your company to agree to an alternative schedule is the easy part.READ»

Seeing and Being Seen

Whether it's home-based or a third place, it's all about being visible in your workspace.READ»

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Merrill Lynch Works - at Home

The Wall Street giant has created a one-of-a-kind program to teach its telecommuters how to get the job done.READ»

Tales from Telecommuters

Two Merrill Lynch telecommuters share their experiences.READ»

Cisco Says Telecommuting Saves Money, and the World

Good news for homebodies: A Cisco survey of 2,000 people worldwide has revealed that employees who telecommute experience higher rates of productivity, work-life flexibility, and overall satisfaction. As if that isn't enough, the ...READ»

Nonsense At Work

Why working from home is impossible: Have you wondered why so many people treat coffee shops as workstations? I’ve finally figured it out. According to statistics and experts-in-the-know, more and more people are working from ...READ»

My Brush with Swine Flu--We Dodged It, But What About Next Time?

At the beginning of June, swine flu or H1N1 hit my daughters’ school in full force.  Thankfully, everyone survived the outbreak, but what about next time?  Experts predict that we haven’t seen the last of H1N1, or its more ...READ»

Boffo Box Office: New OfficePod Drops Your Desk Into Your Garden

"An Englishman's shed is his castle" is a reworking of the old saying that's surprisingly true, even in this gadgety electronic age. So now a U.K.-based company is working to reinvent the humbled shed as an eco-friendly ...READ»

The Wrong Time For Work/Life "Balance," The Right Time For Work+Life "Fit"

John Challenger, the CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a global outplacement firm, was recently quoted as saying, “Holding on to your job right now is more important for many than getting more work/life balance…This is ...READ»

Working Virtually

When I moved back to my hometown, my company decided to start a branch office to help serve our West Coast clients. Now I'm just about at the end of my first year working remotely in Seattle for Learning Worlds in New York. Many ...READ»

Family Unfriendly

According to USA Today, fewer companies are pursuing family-friendly policies and practices such as flextime and telecommuting. A survey done by the Society for Human Resource Management indicates that a third of companies cut ...READ»

Office of the Future

Mark Dixon, founder and chairman of Regus Business Centres, is asking new questions about an old problem: office space. What role do physical offices play in a virtual world? If people can work anywhere, then where can they do their best work?READ»

Jobs for Life

Ernst Young is a cautious firm that has embarked on a bold experiment to address deeply personal questions about work. The goal, say the people behind these programs, is to create jobs for life.READ»

The Way to Enough

Norsk Hydro's work-life experiments test a radical idea: A company can compete on the basis of balance. The company's central thesis: The race goes not to the swiftest but to the most sustainable.READ»