Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report articles from March 1996

Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report archives from March 1996

Telecom update: new rules, new tools. (the Telecommunications Act of 1996) (Government Activity)
March 1, 1996... It's either a "marketing free-for-all" as Business Week called it in a February 19 article, sheer chaos, a full-employment act for advertising agencies, or a little of each. The long-awaited telecommunications legislation that has been in the...

Telecommunications alphabet soup: Beyond ISDN? (new technologies could displace ISDN) (Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 1996... [Ed. note: My banjo-playing, ISDN-promoting friend Steve Finlay, who works for Stentor (the umbrella organization for most of the Canadian telcos), surprised me a couple of weeks ago by sending me a shorter version of what follows via e-mail. I...

Cable modems show promise, but don't hold your breath. (telecommuting) (Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 1996... [Ed. note: If you're a cable TV subscriber you probably have some horror stories to tell about service outages, rising rates, or other problems. One corporate telecom manager told me recently that he would never consider using his cable operator...

Telecommuting, town planning and real life. (telecommuting in England) (Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 1996... Apart from the security services and journalists, the busiest people in London the weekend after the recent IRA bomb blast were real estate agents. The quest for temporary offices was a heaven-sent opportunity for owners of millions of square...

Flexible work guide offered. (a guide issued by Catalyst, a New York-based group for helping women advance their careers in business)(The Changing Workplace) (Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 1996... Catalyst, the New York-based group that specializes in helping women advance their careers in business, launched its newest publication last month. Making Work Flexible: Policy to Practice is the result of an analysis of the experience of sixteen...