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Kentucky Teleworks honored for work in job creation
by Bailey Richards
Telework coming into the forefront of job creation Eastern Kentucky – as coal production and Appalachian Region mining jobs face a bleak future due to increasing environmental protectionism and other governmental carbon policy restrictions on coal fired electric utilities in favor of more costly subsidized ‘Green Energy’ alternatives.
November 16, 2012
The Best-Paying Jobs You Can Do From Anywhere
Jenna Goudreau Forbes Staff
The future of work may not require office plans. Within the next 10 years many businesses will be built completely with virtual teams of online workers. Hiring more virtual workers gives them access to millions of potential candidates, many of the best-paying are concentrated in health care, similarly, telepharmacists have escaped from behind the counter, there’s also a greater need for translators, who aren’t tied to an office and earn a median of $43,000 annually.
October 19, 2012
You Might Be Able to Flex Your Way to a Fatter Paycheck
By Brian O’Connell
Contrary to what ‘some others’ are erroneously reporting, the telework trending is upward during the last half of the first decade on the 21st Century no matter how measured… one day per month, one day per week, part-time or full-time!
One can only speculate why anyone would suggest there is a downward ‘trend’ in the number of teleworkers??? Perhaps those so reporting have a vested interest with antiquated industrial era work practices, “ STAUTUS QUO” that continues their unique individual interest, cash flows, organizational positioning, etc… rather than supporting job growth, greater employment opportunities regardless of geographic location, and competing more effectively (and fairly) in the emerging global market place.
10/31/12
Employees Forego Higher Wages in Favor of Flexible Work Schedules
by Jessica Miller-Merrell, xceptionalhr.com, blogging4jobs.com
Working from home has never been easier. And never before have employees been willing to give up certain benefits just to have a home-based job. 17% of the 2,500 employees surveyed said they would give up a salary increase to have more work flexibility in their schedules. When looking for alternatives to an annual raise because of a difficult year, a company might be able to retain its skilled workforce by offering employees highly coveted flexibility.
10/25/2012
More Valley workers working from home
By Tim Sheehan – The Fresno Bee
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that about 14,200 people in Fresno County about 4.1% of the county’s working population, are working from home either as self-employed entrepreneurs or telecommuters and an increase of almost 3,500 since 2000. As communication and information technologies advance, workers are increasingly able to perform work at home and these changes in work patterns have both economic and social implications.
Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012
Working from home grows in popularity
The number of workers who spend at least one day at home also went up, from 7 percent to 9.5 percent of the workforce says the U.S. Census Bureau. The top telecommuting cities, by percentage of workers at home most of the week can be found here.
October 20, 2012
Are Office Hours Outdated?
By Ned Smith
Office hours as we know them may be coming to the end of the line, a new survey shows. Today’s mobile workers are more productive and less stressed-out when they’re working remotely. The downside is traditional support services could do better meeting needs.
October 12, 2012
Telework job fair set for Oct. 4 in Hazard, Kentucky
The Kentucky Teleworks System can offer access to rewarding, well-paid, and legitimate jobs and they won’t have to move away from home for that employment. Working from home has become a reality for hundreds across Eastern Kentucky because coal mining and manufacturing layoffs have increased, and many possess the necessary skills to work from their homes.
My Life as a Telecommuting Robot
As more employees work remotely, companies are looking for high tech ways to hook them in. Telepresence robots to see and hear home office co-workers, video conferencing on steroids, holograms and wormholes, oh my!
By RACHEL EMMA SILVERMAN
August 8, 2012
Wind Tsunami’ Tests Public Information Call Centers
The largest non-hurricane power outage in the state’s history. Virginia integrated the five calls centers with a cloud platform by Salt Lake City-based vendor inContact. The state’s five 211 call centers are connected by a cloud-based platform that enables enhanced communication.
BY: Sarah Rich | September 6, 2012
Do teleworking employees have higher productivity?
Making a friend of geography’ through the use of electronic means opens the doors to communicate more effectively with greater numbers of people, share more data points with problem solvers (a.k.a. innovative people), an provide true opportunities for the individuals and the organization to thrive.
By Dave Johnson
Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged
Someone working in the same office with their leader needs just as much effective communication as someone located in a different office. It’s just that, ironically, they’re less likely to get it.
by Scott Edinger ~ August 24, 2012
Working Mothers, CEOs and the Death of Face Time
Victoria Pynchon, Contributor February 19, 2012
Ceo’s are utilizing text messaging, instant messaging and video chat and many work virtually. Trend is that face time is diminishing, and increasing numbers are scheduling quiet time for thinking or scoping out the competition.
Forty Percent of Employees Willing to Cut Pay to Work from Home
July 18, 2011- Business News Daily
Results of a July report from Staples Advantage online. 74% are willing to relinquish between 2 to 5% of their salary to work at home.
What does the new economy mean for the shape of communities?
BY KAID BENFIELD – FEBRUARY 6, 2012
What does the ‘new economy’ mean for the shape and futures of communities? How do we live and work together in this new age with increasing financial challenges and growing populations? Will manufacturing and customer service jobs return to the United States?
This article strongly echoes what the members of TelCoa have been suggesting and advocating for more than a decade ~ that trusted institutions …educational, healthcare, retail, and workplaces all need to change, along with governmental services, taxation systems, and regulatory apparatus – including judicial review and their findings – to better monitor and verify the results, while rooting out those who are mischievously abusing the resources we all depend upon.
No longer must we bind ourselves to expensive vulnerable and often unnecessary physical ‘transportation solutions’ born in mid-nineteenth century and status quo P³’s (policies, processes, and procedures) developed under the oft discredited philosophies of Marx, Engels, Keynes, and other quixotic dreamers.
Will We Need Any More Office Space?
By Tim Trainor -December 21, 2011
These BOMA comments, findings, and recommendations are rooted in TelCoa’s ‘playbook’ of the last decade plus! The ‘key’ to the future of work is ‘WE’ as in Work Environment ~ Work@Home™; work from anywhere (any place that suits you); work anytime (that you ‘spark with great ideas for innovation and reformulation’); be prepared to fulfill both your work and family responsibilities whatever nature throws at you (Snowmageddon!); all the while reducing dependence on petroleum imports, expensive, and time consuming ‘transportation solutions’ left over from the early industrial era…
Plantronics Smartens up its Headquarters for Remote Workers
By Mary Catherine O’Connor – December 15, 2011
It is time for companies to get creative about boosting creativity. Smart companies like Plantronics are breeding productivity through flexible working enviornments.
Clarkson Business Center Temporarily Suspends Daily Hours
September 21, 2011
By PETER CROWLEY – Managing Editor ([email protected])
Clarkson Universities Business Center will reopen in the next 10-14 days using cost saving volunteers. Telecommuters and small businesses were not utilizing the space as they preferred to work from home.
Fairfield County Businesses Offer More Telecommute Options
Editor Chris Rueli: [email protected]
One third of CFO’s have increased their remote work in the past 3 years according to Accountemps. Increasing numbers of companies are encouraging telecommuting as an option. The most common professionals include accountants, architects, economists, journalists, researchers, consultants and stockbrokers.
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Telecommute Nation: If Half of Us Could Work Remotely, Why Don’t We?
July 22, 2011 By Derek Thompson
More than 34 million people — equal to the population of Texas and Pennsylvania combined — work from home occasionally. Twice as many could if they wanted. In the next few years, maybe they will.
Seeking Loyal, Devoted Workers? Let Them Stay Home
July 11, 2011 By ANDREA COOMBES
A recent survey finds that workers who telecommute from home or elsewhere, while still a very small portion of the work force, report the highest levels of satisfaction with their jobs and loyalty to their employers. In the poll of about 10,000 U.S. workers, 73% of remote and home-based workers said they were satisfied with their company as a place to work, compared with 64% of office workers.
Press Release:
June 27, 2011
Outdated Business Management Practices Block Flexible Work Styles, Hinder Competitiveness
New Report Shows That America’s Employers Cling to 1950s-style Management Practices
“Come on America, something needs to change — and that something is senior management attitudes towards new work styles. It’s time to join the 21st century and focus on work as a thing we do, not a place we go. With that mindset, every business could become more dynamic and competitive overnight.”, Brett Caine, President, Citrix Online
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Telework Levels the Field for Some Rural Minnesotans
March 24, 2011, by Jennifer Vogel, Minnesota Public Radio
…Rural communities, dying for success stories… They are hoping that better connectivity will make it feasible for more people to live and work farther from the city. They hope it’ll stave off a pattern of out-migration that’s been draining young people from their towns and farms for a century… “Fueled by broadband adoption, better collaboration tools, and growing management experience,” by 2016, 43 percent of American workers will work from home at least one day per week.
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Click here to read the text of legislation proposing telework tax credits in Minnesota.
Virtual medicine as effective as physical doc visits
Webcam doctor visits called convenient, and save time and money
March 21, 2011, By Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
Results of a five-year study on telemedicine showed that patients can be treated virtually by physicians as effectively as if the patients made physical visits to the doctor’s office. In another finding, the remote treatment also improved doctor-patient communication
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How Telecommuting Lets Workers Mobilize for Sustainability
March 2, 2011 by EBR, Energy Business Daily
Over the years, telecommuting has proven to deliver significant societal, environmental and economic benefits. Many organizations have recognized the gains as a boon to promoting sustainable business practices and their bottom lines. While a recent survey found that less than 4 percent of U.S. private sector workers actually work from home, that figure could reach as high as 30 percent by 2019, according to TechCast, a George Washington University–based virtual think tank.
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This article provides many interesting and informative statistics which further bolster TelCoa’s IT + P³ = E³ ™ formula for Successful Work Today and Tomorrow.
