Many fast-moving trends in the private and public sectors often make the issues surrounding telework, or telecommuting, difficult to follow. The Telework Consortium provides thought leadership on a wide-range of issues and have proven to be an expert source on a host of issues. The executives at the Telework Consortium are able to speak to the media on topics such as:

• Broadband technology
• Case studies of telework adopters (public and private sector)
• Disaster recovery and Business Continuity of Operations (COOP)
• Distributed work (working from home)
• Economic development
• Federal, State and Local workforce issues and legislation perspective
• Gas prices/traffic congestion
• HR/workplace issues
• Implementation of telework software/hardware
• Mobile workforce technology
• Telework legislation
• Work/life balance

The Telework Consortium In the News:

• Government Computer News – “The Drive for Telework,” 7/23/07
  (www.gcn.com/print/26_18/44708-1.html)
  

• The Record – “Remote control for off-site employees,” 7/5/07
  (www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3NDImZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcxNjI5NjImeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkyMg)
  

• The Record – “Fine-tune your telework program,” 6/28/07
  (www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk4MTkmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcxNTk0NTAmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXky)
  

• HR Executive – “Work at Home Pays,” 6/20/07
  (www.hreonline.com/HRE/story.jsp?storyId=16833984&sub=false)
  

• Wall Street Journal Online – “How to Get Permission to Telecommute.” 6/15/07
  (blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2007/06/15/how-to-get-permission-to-telecommute)
  

• Government Executive, “OPM clarifies policies affecting teleworkers' pay," 1/4/07
  (www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0107/010407p1.htm)
  

• KillerApp.com, “Local Government Embraces Telework,” 11/17/06
  (www.killerapp.com/content/publish/article_224.shtml)
  

• Network World, “Striving to Keep Teleworkers Happy,” 11/13/06
  (www.networkworld.com/news/2006/121306-striving-to-keep-teleworkers-happy.html)
  

• The New York Times – “Office Space: Career Couch, Out of the Office, Into the Home”, 10/01/06
  (www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/jobs/01advi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)
  

• SmartBiz – “Teleworking Strategies for Small Business”, 7/31/06
  (www.smartbiz.com/article/view/1473)
  

• IT Business Edge – “Let's Get Ready to Telework”, 8/4/06
  (www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=19197)
  

• Government Executive – “OPM releases telework guidance for pandemic flu”, 8/7/06
  (www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0806/080706p2.htm)
  

• Washington Examiner – “Teleworking a no-brainer for cutting congestion”, 7/24/06
  (www.examiner.com/a-189295~Steve_Eldridge__Teleworking_a_no_brainer_for_cutting_congestion.html)
  

• Washington Business Journal – “Telework strikes deal with Fla. City”, 7/21/06
  (http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2006/07/24/story8.html)
  

• Workforce Performance Solutions –"Retaining Career Moms: The Implementation of Telework Programs",
  6/13/06
  (www.wpsmag.com/content/templates/wps_article.asp?articleid=476&zoneid=53)
  

• NBC4 – “Telecommuters Finding Better Ways to Work”, 5/22/06
  (www.nbc4.com/news/9256151/detail.html)
  

• Computerworld – ”Wireless Worker: Telecommuter”, 5/15/06
  (www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleTOC&specialReportId=9000060&articleId=111245)

• Government Executive – “Telework Promoted as a Way to Offset High Gas Costs”, 5/9/06
  (www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0506/050906p1htm)

• Government Executive – “Flu Plan Requires Rewriting of Federal Telework Guidance”, 5/4/06
  (www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0506/050306p1.htm)

• Federal Computer Week – “Adding Telework to Agency Survival Kits”, 4/3/06
  (www.parsintl.com/11251.pdf)

• The Washington Post, “Neglected by Broadband Providers, Rural Areas Find Answers in the Air,” 3/14/06
  (www.parsintl.com/11249.pdf)
  
  

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