Killer app revealed
"I think I'd like to telecommute," my 17-year-old daughter, Katy, told me last week. At first I laughed. "What are you talking about? You've got a summer job!"
"I think I'd like to telecommute," my 17-year-old daughter, Katy, told me last week. At first I laughed. "What are you talking about? You've got a summer job!"
In a recent column, I touched on the US Patent Office's decision to terminate its nascent telework programme. Since, I've spoken with Ronald Stern, long time president of the Patent Office Professional Association (POPA), as well as patent examiners and union negotiators. Turns out, this is one meaty issue that pits employees' job satisfaction against the Fed's bottom line.
I don't use my alarm clock much any more.
What's wrong with this picture? By 2004, all eligible US federal employees will be allowed by law to telework, yet today, only 4% do. To get at the problem, Congress had the General Services Administration conduct a research study with Booz-Allen & Hamilton to identify the technology barriers to telework.
From April to November 2001, the federal government's teleworker ranks jumped more than 35%, from 53,400 to 74,500 employees, according to the US Office of Personnel Management.
What do Generation X professionals want? Flextime, telecommuting, compressed work weeks - policies and programs that make balancing their work and personal lives easier. And they expect their employers to provide them, according to a recent report by research firm Catalyst.
No matter how many gadgets you carry or phone numbers and email addresses you own, when it comes to making contact, we all suffer the same frustration.
It's been two months since thousands of workers were thrust into home and remote offices.
If only Dave Cassidy had worked in a traditional corporate office last year when he moved his home - and home office…