Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report articles from April 1992

Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report archives from April 1992

Utah entrepreneurs plan service business using networked telecommuters. (TeleDoc will link rural work force to provide high-volume, remote data and document processing services)
April 1, 1992... In a way, Kirk Love can trace his interest in telecommuting to his experience working in my adopted home state of New Jersey. While on an assignment for Bell Labs here between 1987 and 1989, Love kept seeing staffing problems in his and other...

Hawaii report provides telecommuting overview and direction for broader use in the state. (an analysis of the Hawaii legislature's "Telecommuting: The Ride of the Future")
April 1, 1992... The Legislative Research Bureau (LRB) of the Hawaii Legislature has just issued a report entitled "Telecommuting: The Ride of the Future." The report was a result of Hawaii House Resolution 74 adopted on April 22, 1991, which called on the LRB...

Communications Worker Union head voices strong opposition to telecommuting for his members. (interview with CWA Pres Morton Bahr) (Interview)
April 1, 1992... The history of labor union reactions to telecommuting in the U.S. has generally been unfavorable, ranging from a call for a total ban on telecommuting in 1985 by the AFL-CIO to more recent public statements against telecommuting from the...

US Supreme Court plans to hear home-office tax case.
April 1, 1992... On March 23, the Supreme Court justices agreed to hear a case that could have significant effects on the home-office deduction for self-employed people who only work at home part of the time. While it is not likely to affect telecommuters...

Remote telemarketing technology introduced. (Teltone Corp. introduces OfficeLink I for remote access to automatic call distributors) (Product Announcement)
April 1, 1992... Teltone Corporation of Bothell, WA has introduced OfficeLink[TM] I to support telecommuting for inbound call center applications, according to Dan Eisenhart, Manager of Market Development for Teltone. The product will allow call center agents...

Seismic detection network urged; a role for telecommuters? (the US Geological Survey proposes a personal computer-based "public seismic network")
April 1, 1992... Unlike the article with the April 1 dateline elsewhere in this issue, this story isn't a joke. Edward Cranswick, with the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado, has proposed the establishment of something called a "public seismic network"...