Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report articles from January 1997

Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report archives from January 1997

The crystal ball: telecommuting goes to broadway. (telecommuting in 1997) (Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 1997... Our 14-year-old daughter Lisa is a talented actress, and belongs to a community theater group that stages two outstanding musicals each year. As I write this early on a Sunday morning, she and some of her friends are asleep on the floor of the...

The lease vs. buy decision for PCs and laptops. (Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 1997... Accounting practices and rules vary from country to country, but in general they are similar in how they distinguish between the treatment of equipment purchases as capital investments, and the ongoing expenses for less-expensive and...

Relax, telecommuters: OSHA inspectors won't be dropping by. (offhand questions cause time-consuming inquiries) (Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 1997... Back in my days in corporate America, I used to work with a vice-president who always bemoaned what he called "the exponential response to the cursory inquiry." He described this as follows: He'd be having lunch with one of his fellow VPs and...

Pac bell offers integrated ISDN/Internet package. (Pacific Bell's Home Pack service) (Company Business and Marketing)
January 1, 1997... Pacific Bell has taken another step in its continuing efforts to deploy and market ISDN service for telecommuting and home-business use [see 10/95 TR for prior announcement]. This time, Pac Bell has collaborated with three other vendors to...

Life-size videowalls let you "meet" face to face. (videoconferencing equipment) (Technology Information)
January 1, 1997... [Ed. note: This article by Ellen Reilly gives you a look at some new uses of videoconferencing, and also provides a short overview of this market today. As you'll see, these "videowalls" aren't the kind of technology useful for individual...

Explaining the USA Today story without getting (too) defensive. (response to Nov 25, 1996 article) (Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 1997... You know the old adage about what the media likes to report: if a dog bites a man it isn't news, but if a man bites a dog, there's a front-page story about it. A lengthy article in the November 25 issue of USA Today is a "man-bites-dog" story,...