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USAADSL Forum: A forum that wants to help telephone companies and their suppliers develop and market ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) technology. The site offers short explanations of all DSL technologies, the system environment for ADSL, and the basic futures of the ADSL market. Advocates for Remote Employment and the Virtual Office (AREVO) : The mission is to promote the economic, personal and environmental benefits of remote employment and the virtual office to employers, workers and society as a whole. The site contains definitions and brief explanations of remote employment and virtual office along with a concise articulation of the benefits to employers, workers, and society as a whole. Alternative Work Environments (AVE): Distributed Workforce. AWE specializes in telecommuting, mobile computing, and virtual office solutions. Headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania (Greater Philadelphia Area). American Telecommuting Association (ATA): How to join ATA. Including good information and encouragement. Beyond Telecommuting: A new paradigm for the Effect of Telecommunications on Travel by John S. Niles. An informative discussion of why telecommunications tends to favor suburban development patterns. Business@Home: An online gathering spot and information resource for the working-from-home community. California Department of Personnel Administration: Teleworking: Documentation of the California government telework program. Distributed Work Arrangements: Impacts of Advanced Information Technologies, Work Coordination Mechanisms, and Communication Requirements by France Bélanger (Information Systems and Decision Sciences, University of South Florida, USA). Environmental and Social Impacts of Telecommuting and Teleactivities by Jason Marcus (University of California, Santa Cruz). Escape Artist : One Thousand & One Telecommuting & Home Office Resources. Extreme Telecommuting: An office Odyssey by Sid and Kristianne. "Extreme Telecommuting is when you telecommute from every place all the time. Not only are you not tied to the corporate office, you're not even tied to a house. You fire up the laptop, grab the Acoustic Koupler, jump into the van, and head out on the highway. You've got maps, your fly rod, a cell phone, cigarette-lighter adapters up the yazoo, and all you need is the odd Kinko's, a payphone here and there, and a good friend to do it with." FIND/SVP is a worldwide research, advisory & business intelligence service. It is a resource for executives who want to keep informed and stay ahead of the competition. From quick consulting to in-depth studies and custom analysis, their specialists claim to have the answers you need. Hard@Work: Concentrate:How to concentrate on your work. Tips that will help you "stay focused" and get rid of distractions. Home Sweet Home - Sweet Work? by Sara Pitman. A paper that explores issues of telecommuting from a worker's perspective, looking at how telework will affect the currently separate spheres of home, work and family. Specifically focusing on the roles of women in the home and family and how they will be affected by these changes. Home Worker: An interactive vehicle that allows you to ask questions, seek answers and speak about the problems and opportunities homeworkers encounter every day. Editor: Linda Molnar. How Remote Workers Impact Office Space by Ken Robertson. In: Telework 5(2), March/April 1997, published by KLR Consulting Inc. International Workplace Studies Program at Cornell University. Major research program on the Office of the Future. Some pioneering studies of hoteling and non-territorial offices; telework centers-satellite offices; home-based telecommuting; collaborative workplace strategies; new placemakers (unconventional workplace providers). Institute for the Study of Distributed Work (ISDW): A non-profit organizational learning and research center dedicated to the furthering of increased worker productivity, efficient use of physical space, appropriate design and use of technology, improved employee contentment through distributed work, telecommuting, and distance learning. The site provides research reports on distributed work and a library of resources. International Homework Association (IHA): The Homeworkers Association's services for homeworkers in the United States and Canada, including insurance, information, a place to share strategies, and discounted tools for your business. Potential employers can list job openings. International Telework Association & Council (ITAC): A non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the economic, social and environmental benefits of telecommuting. Their members share information about the telecommuting program and policy design, development of the U.S. telecommuting sector, implementation of telecommuting programs and telecommuting research. June Langhoff's Telecommuting Resource Center Jala International: An international group of management consultants in California (USA). Their mission is to help organizations make effective use of information technology and to better cope with the accellerating rate of change in the business environment. JALA's activities are in four main areas: telework, applied futures research, technology assessment and regional telecommunications planning. Co-founder and president of Jala is Jack Nilles, who coined the terms telecommuting and teleworking in 1973 during the first documented pilot telecommuting project. In Some common - and not so common - telework/telecommuting questions Jack Nilles's answers and comments. MCK Communications: A provider of remote-voice solutions. Their site contains links to telecommuting experts/consultants and industry links. Network Nation Revisited by David Belson. A thesis presented to the faculty of Stevens Institute of Technology. In 1978 Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoffo wrote a seminal text on Computer Mediated Communication, "The Network Nation". They prognosticated what the future of Computer Mediated Communication would be. Belsen examines each of the 14 predictions made by Hiltz and Turoff, and evaluates each of them relative to the developments that have taken place with regard to Computer Mediated Communication over the past 16 years. The New Workplace: A paper on the 'office of the future' (work anywhere, anytime). How some companies are making it all happen, through means such as telecommuting and hoteling. On Telecommuting : A PS Enterprises Research Paper. Recursos Para El Teletrabajo: Americo-Hispanic Telework Association. In Spanish only. |
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