Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report articles from October 1995

Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report archives from October 1995

The futile search for questionable answers. (telecommuting is almost impossible to benchmark usefully)(Feature Story)
October 1, 1995... Several recent events have caused me to seriously question why we are making so little progress in telecommuting at a time when there is so much progress that can and should be made. As you will see, I'll argue that the problem may not be...

ISDN service package basis of large pilot. (Pacific Bell's Remote WorldPac service)
October 1, 1995... Responding to interest from some of its larger accounts, Pacific Bell developed and began marketing Remote WorkPac, a service designed to make the ordering and installation of ISDN lines for telecommuters much simpler. PacBell has been one of the...

Integrated voice mail system offered. (Octel Communications' OcteLink voice mail service)
October 1, 1995... If feeling isolated is a risk of telecommuting, Octel Communications Corp. of Milpitas, CA. may have a way to make a remote worker feel more virtually "at the office"--or at least on the company's voice mall system. On July 11, Octel announced...

Thoughts on the office's past, present and future.
October 1, 1995... One of the great pleasures of my work is having the opportunity to meet with some very interesting people from around the world who ostensibly come to learn from me--but end up teaching me more than I teach them. The most recent example was a...

Home office associations: value for telecommuting? (Home Office Association of America; National Home Office Association)
October 1, 1995... As millions of us move into home offices--either as employed telecommuters or independent contractors/home-based businesses--new dilemmas face us every day. Such as, who's looking out for our interests as a group--and who are "we" anyway? The...