Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report articles from March 1993

Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report archives from March 1993

Japan's satellite offices through the eyes of a recent visitor. (Dr. Patricia Mokhtarian of the University of California at Davis)(International Highlights) (Transcript)
March 1, 1993... In the last few years I've reported on various aspects of telecommuting in Japan, including the development of satellite offices for more than five years. This month, let's take a short trip to Japan to "visit" three of these, courtesy of Dr....

News from the phone company front. (Southwestern Bell, Ameritech) (Product and Service News)
March 1, 1993... Two items of note in the continuing saga of the development of local telephone operating companies in the U.S. * Southwestern Bell [the regional Bell operating company [RBOC] based in St. Louis, MO] announced on February 9 that it will...

Radish announces alliances with voice response system providers. (Radish Communications)(Product and Service News)
March 1, 1993... Following up on the announcement of Radish Communications' VoiceViewTM product (see 5/92 TR) is news that the company has formed alliances with three major providers of voice response unit (VRU) technology. This will extend the benefits that...

Power of pension managers a possible factor in office space excesses. (Real Estate and Office Space)
March 1, 1993... February 26 was a day with a strange series of coincidences related to New York City office space: * First, there was an article in the New York Times citing data from the Edward S. Gordon Company (no relation) showing that Manhattan...

Energy taxes, commute allowances, and the cost of driving. (Traffic and Transportation)
March 1, 1993... One of the items drawing lots of interest in the economic package proposed by President Clinton is the energy tax that, if passed by Congress, would affect everyone directly or indirectly. The big question is what effect this tax would have on...

Research on employee attitudes provides insights into preferences for telecommuting. (Special Topics)
March 1, 1993... One of the telecommuting-related papers presented at the January Transportation Research Board meeting (see last month's TR for details) was a report on a field research project in Texas that attempted to measure employee preferences for...