Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report articles from March 1992

Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report archives from March 1992

Arizona firm uses telecommuters to meet staffing, workload goals. (PCS Inc.) (Telecommuting Applications)
March 1, 1992... Faced with a recruiting problem when it relocated from Phoenix to Scottsdale, Arizona in 1987, PCS Inc. started a telecommuting program that has worked out well for the company and its employees. The company took the approach of segmenting its...

Federal "Flexiplace" program expands to include IRS. (Telecommuting Applications)
March 1, 1992... The Federal government's telecommuting pilot-the "Flexiplace" program-will soon include ten people from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office in Seattle, according to Bill Coleman, who manages the Flexiplace program in the IRS. It is being...

Estimates show telecommunications/labor cost tradeoffs for inbound call center and other applications. (Telecommuting Applications)
March 1, 1992... One of the speakers I heard at the Pacific Telecommunications Council meeting in Hawaii in January was Dr. Ronald Uhlig, Director of Strategic Marketing for Northern Telecom Asia-Pacific. Dr. Uhlig presented a paper with Chao Thongma of the...

Bell Atlantic announces PCS trial with Motorola; the ultimate phone solution for telecommuters.(Personal Communications Service) (Legal and Regulatory News)
March 1, 1992... One of the hot topics on both the technical and regulatory sides of the telephone business these days is the future of "personal communications service," or PCS, as the next generation of mobile phone service. An announcement in early February...

Productivity measures: Are we trying to count the wrong thing? (Supervisory Issues)
March 1, 1992... 1. Introduction One of the most commonly stated benefits of telecommuting to employers is increased productivity. Assertions of gains in the range of 15%-25%-and sometimes more--are common, based on relatively few published reports, a...

New study shows surprisingly high levels of telecommuting use in larger employers. (Special Topics)
March 1, 1992... The latest in a continuing series of research reports from LINK Resources suggests that telecommuting and other forms of remote work are being used at much higher levels than are commonly thought. The fact that these numbers come from a sample...

The changing workplace: the flexible workforce news digest. ( Aetna Life and Casualty wins award for flexible work management)
March 1, 1992... New Ways to Work Celebrates Twenty Years and Honors Leaders New Ways to Work, a San Francisco-based research, training and consulting organization, celebrated its twentieth anniversary at a luncheon on February 20 in San Francisco. NWW used...