Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report articles from January 1998

Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report archives from January 1998

The crystal ball: reading the tea leaves. (telecommuting) (Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
January 1, 1998... We had just finished a nice dinner with my wife's parents during the holiday break in late December, when we four Gordons went down to Florida to visit both sets of (grand)parents. Our son ordered tea, and the waitress brought a selection of...

Union organizing comes to the Web; remote workers within reach. (with the example of the union organizing activity of the Borders bookstore chain) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
January 1, 1998... First, a disclaimer: this article is not about the merits of the attempts to unionize employees of the Borders bookstore chain. I don't know what the issues are, don't know who has (or feels they have) been wronged, and I certainly am not...

New accounting method proposed for tracking workplace costs. (research by Institute of Management Accountants and the International Development Research Council on accounting to support distributed work) (Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 1998... The accounting profession is often accused of being behind the times and is ridiculed for its inflexible manner. These stereotypes certainly don't apply to a new method for measuring the costs of the distributed workplace. The Institute...

Productivity and traffic revisited. (letter from the California franchise Tax Board's telecommuting program coordinator, Sue Teranishi) (Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 1998... The October/November issue of TR drew a lot of comment--most recently this letter from Sue Teranishi, the long-time telecommuting program coordinator at the Franchise Tax Board in the State of California government: Hi Gil: Great...

The virtual office done right. (Hertfordshire County Council's "Workwise" program)(Real Estate and Office Space) (Government Activity)
January 1, 1998... An old acquaintance from England, David Markby, e-mailed me recently after we "spoke" when I appeared via videoconference at a seminar in London. He took me up on an invitation to share some information about a recent project he managed as...

You're not going crazy - it's just not. (high-technology at work) (Technology Information)
January 1, 1998... IT WAS HERE JUST A MINUTE AGO Have you noticed that things: * in your workaday world are starting to shrink and disappear these days? * that used to have independent existence are getting incorporated into other things? *...

Accounting organization cites mobility as basis of three "top 10" technology. (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) (Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 1998... According to a poll of some of its members, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) says that mobility and remote access figure in three of the top ten technology issues facing the profession in the year ahead. A...