Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report articles from October 1996

Telecommuting Review: the Gordon Report archives from October 1996

Looking five years back and five years out. (eight telecommuting analysts' views on telecommuting) (Feature Story) (Industry Trend or Event)
October 1, 1996... SUMMARY: This issue of TR is published for distribution at our fifth annual TELECOMMUTE conference, held Oct. 27-31. This five-year anniversary was the impetus for inviting eight well-known and respected telecommuting analysts and observers to...

Return-to-work program for disabled offered to insurance companies. (Managed Work program by Expediter Employment Services) (Company Business and Marketing)
October 1, 1996... SUMMARY: A new program called Managed Work[sm] is now being offered to disability insurance carriers for use by their employer clients. The program provides a highly structured approach for enabling injured workers to get back to their original...

Some virtual observations on face time. (face-to-face interaction vs electronic communication) (Industry Trend or Event)
October 1, 1996... SUMMARY: "Going eyeball to eyeball" and similar phrases describe how most people are used to making contact with each other. For many people, there's just no substitute for being able to sit across a table from another person; e-mail, fax,...

Arizona deals with pollution by mandating telecommuting in government agencies. (Government Activity)
October 1, 1996... SUMMARY: An eight-year-old telecommuting program among State government agencies in Arizona got a boost recently when the Governor authorized a plan including a goal of 15% "active participation" in telecommuting by state agencies. The major...

Internet hosts vs. (remote) work and urbanization: a connection ? (relationship between the main locations of Internet servers and economic growth) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
October 1, 1996... SUMMARY: Just as the installation of a new railroad line or the discovery of mineral deposits used to indicate that new businesses and jobs would follow, a group of researchers asserts that patterns of concentration of Internet host computers...