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New CEA Employee Benefit Combats Rising Energy Use
Employee-Wide Telework Policy Strengthens CEA Pro-Environmental Policies ARLINGTON, Va. -- The Consumer Electronics Association CEA([R]) today announced it will expand its formal telework policy to include all full-time employees and encourage staff to spend four days in the office and work one day each week from home. Gary Shapiro,...
Tags: Benefits, Consumer Electronics Association, Strategy, Telecommuting
Research articles 2008-10-14
Rising gas prices drive benefits changes
More employers are adjusting policies and practices to reduce the pinch employees are experiencing at the gas pump, according to research by the Society for Human Resource Management SHRM. In a survey of 553 human resource professionals conducted last May, respondents said their companies were most likely to help...
Tags: benefit, Internal Revenue Service, MARKETING, Society for Human Resource Management, Telecommuting
Research articles 2008-08-01
Nucleus Research Issues Report Showing Investment in PeopleCube's Resource Scheduler Results in Reduced Real Estate And Energy Costs and Improved Talent Recruitment
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- PeopleCube, provider of workplace, resource, and energy management technology, today announced the results of an independent study by Nucleus Research on the value of resource management technology. Nucleus found companies that implemented resource scheduling solutions such as PeopleCube's were able to better manage conference rooms and shared...
Tags: investment, Nucleus Research Inc., talent, Telecommuting
Research articles 2008-06-23
Energy surge prompts move to 4-day work week in US
WASHINGTON AFP — Skyrocketing energy costs have fueled fresh interest in the four-day workweek across the United States as a means to help workers as well as employers cope with the surge. In Birmingham, Alabama, city officials decided to implement a four-day week starting July 1 for some 2,400...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, MARKETING, Telecommuting, Transportation
Research articles 2008-06-07
Telecommuting May Harm Workers Left Behind in the Office
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Jessica Otitigbe, Media Relations Specialist of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, +1-518-276-6050, Fax: +1-518-276- 6091, otitij@rpi.edu TROY, N.Y., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As telecommuting and other forms of virtual work become increasingly popular, what happens to the workers who are left behind in the office? A new...
Tags: Institute, job, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Telecommuting, worker
Research articles 2008-01-11
Study says telecommuting may harm workers left behind in the office; First-of-its-kind research addresses impact of virtual work on non-teleworkers.
M2 PRESSWIRE-9 January 2008-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Study says telecommuting may harm workers left behind in the office; First-of-its-kind research addresses impact of virtual work on non-teleworkersC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09012008 Troy, N.Y. -- As telecommuting and other forms of...
Tags: Institute, job, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Telecommuting, worker
Research articles 2008-01-09
Environmental Policy and Technology Thought Leaders to Hold Roundtable Discussion on Environmental Benefits of Broadband
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORSContact: Hillary Maxwell, +1-202-572-6205, for the American Consumer Institute; or Kristina Taylor of the Consumer Electronics Association, +1-703-907-4326 WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Environmental policy and technology thought leaders will engage in a roundtable discussion of the environmental benefits that can result from the use of information and...
Tags: broadband, Consumer Electronics Association, leader, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecommuting
Research articles 2007-10-29
Clear the streets: Work at home
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a sampling of transportation writer Erik N. Nelson's Capricious Commuter blog on getting around the Bay Area. Read more and post comments at InsideBayArea.com. Sept. 19 We love to complain about traffic congestion. One thing that often...
Tags: Clear, Editor, Telecommuting
Research articles 2007-09-24
National Study Finds Electronics Significantly Reduce Energy Use, Cut Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
CEA Says Great Potential for Industry to Drive Emissions Reductions and Energy Savings ARLINGTON, Va. -- A new national study commissioned by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA[R]) shows that using electronics to telecommute saves the equivalent of 9 to 14 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year -- the same...
Tags: Consumer Electronics Association, electronics, Telecommuting
Research articles 2007-09-19
Microsoft Office team and former "Trading Spaces" designer Vern Yip Want to Give Your Home Office a $25,000 Makeover.
M2 PRESSWIRE-14 June 2007-Headline Maker: Microsoft Office team and former "Trading Spaces" designer Vern Yip Want to Give Your Home Office a $25,000 MakeoverC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14062007 Market Gainer is quickly emerging as the one stop shop for international small-cap...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., SOFTWARE, team, Telecommuting
Research articles 2007-06-14
Telecommuters tap into office work revolution
HARDEN, Australia AFP — A rock holds down the snail-mail in the old oil can that serves as a letterbox at the entrance to KPMG senior manager Kelvin Brown's office. But visitors should not be fooled: Brown, 45, is a trailblazer on the information superhighway. Phone him at...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, KPMG Consulting Inc., phone, Sydney, Taxes, Telecommuting
Research articles 2007-06-01
How High Gas Prices Might Help Your Work Situation
You've probably noticed what I've noticed: Soaring gas prices are finally, finally, causing people to change their behavior. Take me, for example. I now share my 44-mile commute into Boston with a co-worker, something I thought I would never do. So people are ready to change. How...
Tags: Workforce Management, Benefits, Human Resources, Recruitment & Selection, Telecommuting, Employer, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2008-07-31
Video: Make Telecommuting Work
In this new BNET Video, Sun Microsystem's "chief green evangelist," Dave Douglas, talks about how Sun made telecommuting work, helping the company increase productivity and its employees save time, money and fuel. More BNET Videos » by Michael Mattis
Tags: Michael Mattis, Marketing, Workforce Management, Corporate Communications, Human Resources, Video, Telecommuting, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Blog posts 2008-07-24
Tips for Telecommuters
Slacker Manager has a weak post on telecommuting, 8 Tips on How to Work From Home: 28 Years of Experience, by David Zinger . It's really more like eight thoughts. Only two seem like tips to me -- the rest are observations or benefits based...
Tags: Slacker Manager, Telework Exchange, Telecommuting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2008-07-15
GAO Suggests Congress Review Effectiveness of Workplace Safety Strategies
In a recent letter to Congress, Government Accountability Office GAO recommeded that Congress review the effectiveness of strategies to ensure workplace safety.Regulations and activities designed to provide protections for workers, GAO believes, may need to be revised to reflect dramatic changes in the demographics of the national workforce and changes...
Tags: Benefits, General Accounting Office, Government Accountability Office, Telecommuting, U.S. Congress, worker, workforce, workplace
Research articles 2007-01-01
Aeronautical Systems Center Office of Public Affairs : DoD selects Air Force civilian for disabled employee award
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The beginning of the award reads, "outstanding DoD employee," defining a career marked by a strong work ethic and many achievements before mentioning the life-threatening injury that changed his world 11 years ago. Paul Gabriel, an electronics engineer at Aeronautical Systems Center's Engineering...
Tags: Air Force, Java, Telecommuting, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2007-01-01
Extreme workers.
Byline: Catherine Fox Dec 07, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Columbia University professor, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, is an expert on "extreme workers" and knows some ways to combat the trend. Four years after the publication of her 2002 book,...
Tags: CAREER, Columbia University, Telecommuting, women, worker
Research articles 2006-12-07
Forbes magazine lists Hot Springs among best places
Hot Springs is among the best places in America to live inexpensively and do your job by the technology of telecommuting, according to Forbes magazine's Web site, Forbes.com. The magazine, in an article posted to the site by writer Rich Karlgaard, lists Hot Springs among what he terms "some...
Tags: Forbes, Telecommuting
Research articles 2006-09-25
Telecommuting Really is Productive, Says NSF
Many managers think of telecommuting as a necessary evil for certain freelancers. But a case study conducted by The National Science Foundation and Telework Exchange free registration required suggests that having team members spend at least one day a month telecommuting could be a boon to your team’s productivity. ...
Tags: Team, National Science Foundation, Telecommuting, Team Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Jeff Palfini
Blog posts 2008-03-19
Commuter school.
Commuter School: California State University Northridge was recognized as one of the best workplaces for commuters by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The school's "Commuter Transportation Program" offers alternative methods to employees other than driving alone. The university offers a public transit subsidy of 60 percent for a...
Tags: California State University, Telecommuting, Transportation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, workplace
Research articles 2006-07-17
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