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Tweet[IWS] TELEWORK ELIGIBILITY PROFILE: FEDS FIT THE BILL [19 February 2008]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Telework Exchange
Telework Eligibility Profile: Feds Fit the Bill [19 February 2008]
http://www.teleworkexchange.com/eligibility/
[PowerPoint Slides]
Press Release
Study Reveals $13.9 Billion Annual Federal Telework Deficit
Feds Can Telework and Spare the Environment 21.5 Billion Pounds of Pollutants
Or Plant 32 Million Trees Annually to Offset CO2 Emissions
http://www.teleworkexchange.com/pdfs/Telework-Eligibility-Profile-Feds-Fit-the-Bill-Press-Release.pdf
[full-text, 3 pages]
ALEXANDRIA, Va., February 19, 2008 Telework ExchangeSM, a public-private partnership focused on telework in government, today announced the results of the "Telework Eligibility Profile: Feds Fit the Bill" study. Underwritten by TANDBERG, a leading global provider of telepresence, high-definition videoconferencing, and mobile video products and services, the study reveals that Feds are telework friendly, based on responses to the Telework Exchange Online Telework Eligibility Gizmo, a quiz-based calculator that helps employees determine telework eligibility. An overwhelming majority 96 percent of respondents should be teleworking, yet only 20 percent currently do. Extrapolating from the Online Telework Eligibility Gizmo participants to the total Federal workforce, the study reveals that if all Federal employees who are eligible to telework full time were to do so, Feds could realize $13.9 billion savings in commuting costs annually and eliminate 21.5 billion pounds of pollutants out of the environment each year.
Key study findings include:
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Knowledge is Power: One in three Federal employees is still not aware of their agency's telework program. Study participants cite reducing commuting time/costs, maintaining work/life balance, and continuity of operations (COOP) as top telework benefits
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Ideal Telework World: Feds are telework friendly out of 96 percent of respondents who are eligible to telework, 79 percent are eligible to telework full time
"Telework Eligibility Profile: Feds Fit the Bill" Study 2-2-2
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Eligibility Deficit: Forty-two percent of respondents are not aware if they are eligible to telework. Ninety percent of these respondents are, in fact, eligible to telework. If Feds who are unaware of their telework status could telework full time, they would collectively save $5 billion in commuting costs and spare the environment 7.7 billion pounds of pollutants annually
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Fitting the Profile: To telework effectively, candidates identified the following requirements communicating via e-mail and phone, remote access to an organization's IT infrastructure, a safe alternative work environment, and the ability to control one's schedule to a significant degree
AND MORE.....
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Telework Exchange
Telework Eligibility Profile: Feds Fit the Bill [19 February 2008]
http://www.teleworkexchange.com/eligibility/
[PowerPoint Slides]
Press Release
Study Reveals $13.9 Billion Annual Federal Telework Deficit
Feds Can Telework and Spare the Environment 21.5 Billion Pounds of Pollutants
Or Plant 32 Million Trees Annually to Offset CO2 Emissions
http://www.teleworkexchange.com/pdfs/Telework-Eligibility-Profile-Feds-Fit-the-Bill-Press-Release.pdf
[full-text, 3 pages]
ALEXANDRIA, Va., February 19, 2008 Telework ExchangeSM, a public-private partnership focused on telework in government, today announced the results of the "Telework Eligibility Profile: Feds Fit the Bill" study. Underwritten by TANDBERG, a leading global provider of telepresence, high-definition videoconferencing, and mobile video products and services, the study reveals that Feds are telework friendly, based on responses to the Telework Exchange Online Telework Eligibility Gizmo, a quiz-based calculator that helps employees determine telework eligibility. An overwhelming majority 96 percent of respondents should be teleworking, yet only 20 percent currently do. Extrapolating from the Online Telework Eligibility Gizmo participants to the total Federal workforce, the study reveals that if all Federal employees who are eligible to telework full time were to do so, Feds could realize $13.9 billion savings in commuting costs annually and eliminate 21.5 billion pounds of pollutants out of the environment each year.
Key study findings include:
..
Knowledge is Power: One in three Federal employees is still not aware of their agency's telework program. Study participants cite reducing commuting time/costs, maintaining work/life balance, and continuity of operations (COOP) as top telework benefits
..
Ideal Telework World: Feds are telework friendly out of 96 percent of respondents who are eligible to telework, 79 percent are eligible to telework full time
"Telework Eligibility Profile: Feds Fit the Bill" Study 2-2-2
..
Eligibility Deficit: Forty-two percent of respondents are not aware if they are eligible to telework. Ninety percent of these respondents are, in fact, eligible to telework. If Feds who are unaware of their telework status could telework full time, they would collectively save $5 billion in commuting costs and spare the environment 7.7 billion pounds of pollutants annually
..
Fitting the Profile: To telework effectively, candidates identified the following requirements communicating via e-mail and phone, remote access to an organization's IT infrastructure, a safe alternative work environment, and the ability to control one's schedule to a significant degree
AND MORE.....
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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