Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report articles from August 1996

Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report archives from August 1996

Final evaluation of Canadian government pilot released. (Positive results in telecommuting pilot project lead to continued promotion of the concept) (Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 1996... For the last four years I've kept in touch with Bob Fortier of the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) in Canada. He has been the champion of an extensive pilot program m his agency, and the interim reports about policy development and progress were...

Fax machine fits in your hands for go-anywhere faxing. (Reflection Technology's FaxView palm-sized fax machine) (Product Development)
August 1, 1996... At the time when e-mail seems to be catching up to, and maybe eclipsing, faxes for routine electronic business correspondence, a new product is out that makes mobile access to faxes much easier. I've been playing with a demo unit over the last...

Voice mail interconnect service announced. (Messaging Alliance to interconnect disparate US voice-mail systems) (Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 1996... [Ed. note: There was some interesting news recently from the strange world of competing-and-collaborating telephone operating companies. Tom Durkin checked into it for TR, and he finds that it may soon he possible to have a kind of universal...

Canadian agency implements hoteling, cuts space and costs. (non-assigned offices used by off-site employees, reduces costs) (Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 1996... [Ed. note: The drive to reduce office space needs and related costs continues, in the public sector as well as the private. This guest article by Fiona Potter tells the story of a fast and effective conversion of some Ottawa office space to...