Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report articles from March 1998

Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report archives from March 1998

The Future of Presence, or "Is Anybody Home?" (Activerse Corp's Ding! workgroup software) (Product Information)
March 1, 1998... Thanks to the Dilbert comic strip, we now have a new term to add to the office dictionary: "prairie dogging." This describes the behavior of cubicle-dwellers who occasionally pop up from their cubicles so they can look around and see who else...

California arbitrator says union can use employer's E-mail for union purposes. (a decision handed down by California's Public Employment Relations Board) (Employee Relations) (Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 1998... It has been a long-standing feature of union-management relations that there will be quarrels, charges and countercharges about the appropriateness of various actions taken by both parties. For example, union leaders have the right and...

Company offers start-up, support package for telecommuters. (Virtual Support Services) (Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 1998... If you're looking for someone to take charge of just about the entire process of equipping your telecommuters or mobile workers with all the technology they need--and then being available to answer questions and provide support 24 hours a day,...

New CLEC offers local access service for telecommuters. (Focal Communications Corp, a new competitive local exchange carrier) (Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 1998... Competition is coming to local phone service in the US, slowly but surely. The local exchange carriers that provide the majority of local service (primarily the regional Bell operating companies, or RBOCs) are facing challenges from the...

More tools for remote meetings available. (Netopia's Virtual Office, SMART Technologies' SMART Board, Tegrity's Digital Flipchart) (Product Information)
March 1, 1998... One by one, the technical barriers to true collaboration over a distance are falling away--and as they do, the prospects for more and more varied types of telecommuting become more attractive. Here are three products you might want to learn...

Conference on new workplace technologies planned for May. (International Institute of Business Technologies conference, Sheraton Washington Hotel, Washington, DC, is scheduled for May 10-13, 1998) (Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 1998... The International Institute of Business Technologies (IIBT) has announced its conference titled "Transformational Technologies of the 21st Century: Preparing Managers for the Workplace of the Future." It will be held May 10-13 at the Sheraton...

Technomicromanaging: the manager's dream -- and telecommuter's worst nightmare. (Supervisory Issues) (Product Information)
March 1, 1998... THE PERSISTENCE OF RESISTANCE Here we are, twenty-five years after Jack Nilles coined the word "telecommuting," and we're still struggling with a fundamental issue that became evident way back in the ancient history of telecommuting:...