Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report articles from March 1995

Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report archives from March 1995

Consulting firm sees flexibility as good business. (American Management Systems Inc)
March 1, 1995... Telecommuting is hardly a radical concept for employees at American Management Systems, Inc. (AMS). Since it was founded 25 years ago, this Northern Virginia-based firm has embraced a non-traditional workplace approach while positioning itself at...

Canadian pilot evaluation shows good results, good methodology. (Statistics Canada report on telecommuting)
March 1, 1995... It seems that everyone is always looking for the ultimate proof that telecommuting works - whatever that means. I won't get off on a tangent about the pros and cons of evaluations here, but can't resist noting that telecommuting is often held to...

False economies: raising costs while saving money. (cost control measures cost time and productivity in telecommuting)
March 1, 1995... It will come as no surprise if I say that budgets are tight these days, and employers setting up telecommuting trials are trying to economize in this area just as with everything else they do. Though an admirable - and necessary - objective, cost...

AT&T introduces call-center telecommuting product. (AT&T Telecommuter Module telephone management device)
March 1, 1995... AT&T's first major move into the market for telecommuting products was the Home Agent software designed for use with its DEFINITY[R] and other switches [see 2/91 TR]. A companion product for slightly different applications was recently...

File storage system provides dial-up backups. (Stone Mountain Data Centers Backeasy backup storage system service)
March 1, 1995... You know the old saying about hard drives - the question isn't whether yours will crash, but when it will crash. I'll tempt fate and say that I've been lucky so far, though I've had numerous files that were mysteriously lost, destroyed, or turned...

Pack up your office and move it anywhere. (Haworth Inc Steamer portable office furniture)
March 1, 1995... If you're looking for a portable office, consider the Steamer which will soon be introduced by Haworth Inc. The Steamer [see photos] is just over five feet tall, three feet wide and two feet deep when closed, and weighs 300 pounds. Move it where...

New York regional group studies technology impacts. (Port Authority of New York and New Jersey)
March 1, 1995... When you're in the business of developing and managing facilities and transportation systems including the World Trade Center, all the New York metropolitan airports, and most of the region's bridges and tunnels, it makes good sense to look at...

Fortune article misses the point. (Fortune magazine article criticizing telecommuting)
March 1, 1995... Journalists seem to enjoy taking the opposing viewpoint about popular trends; I guess that's what sells newspapers and magazines (and newsletters). But a March 6 Fortune article entitled "Let's Hear It for the Office" [see the insert enclosed...

Basis of employer demand for telecommuting probed.
March 1, 1995... Last month's TR included a report on research at the University of Texas into employee preferences for telecommuting, presented at the January meeting of the Transportation Research Board. Also presented at this forum was some interesting...