NETWORK WORLD TONI KISTNER'S TELEWORK BEAT 08/31/04 Today's focus: Beating the drum in 2005
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * The Telework Coalition takes ambitious steps to increase ��telework * Links related to Telework Beat * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Statscout Blanket Network Performance Monitoring Monitor your entire network every 60 seconds with minimal impact on the network. Businesses and organizations seeking detailed performance and troubleshooting reporting on networks of 1000 to 200,000 network interfaces in size will benefit substantially from using Statscout. Request your 30-day trial now, click here http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=78755 _______________________________________________________________ IS SECURITY RIPE FOR OUTSOURCING? Security demands for online applications such as e-commerce and Web services are prompting more corporate customers to hand off security functions - such as intrusion detection and firewalls - to outside service providers. Find out if security should be outsourced in this Network World article: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=78276 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Beating the drum in 2005 By Toni Kistner The Telework Coalition, a Washington, D.C. advocacy group, is making big plans for 2005. Newly incorporated, the group is changing its legal status to a 501(c)(6), which means it can lobby Congress, recruit members, put on conferences and the like. The group - run by former International Telework Association and Council leaders John Edwards, Chuck Wilsker and Jack Heacock - spent the last two years working with Maryland legislators to draft telework tax incentives, educating companies involved in the federal e-commute program, and conducting roundtables and training sessions for private and public sector organizations. (I also sit on TelCoa's advisory board.) It also helps promote virtual call centers and broadband deployment, and evaluates telework-enabling technologies. TelCoa stands apart because it's wholly dedicated to increasing the number of teleworkers and solidifying organizations' commitment to telework, says Wilsker, TelCoa president. A look at TelCoa's 2005 agenda presents a snapshot of the state of telework. * First, it wrestles with what is telework. Does TelCoa see ��workers who check e-mail at night the way they see employees ��enrolled in formal telework programs? "Yes, episodic teleworkers ��need technology, too and could be a good gateway to the ��establishment of more formal programs within their companies. ��Our tagline -Enabling Virtual, Mobile, and Distributed Work ��through Education, Technology, and Legislation -says we realize ��it's all telework whether you call it that or not." * TelCoa is examining how telework can create jobs for rural, ��disabled and retired workers, and military spouses. "Consider ��how many people lost their retirement savings when the tech ��market crashed," Wilsker says. "Like my dentist - now he has to ��postpone retirement. Or what about returning war veterans? There ��are more than 12,000 disabled veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan ��alone who need to find a new way of working." * Once the group's new 501(c)(6) status is finalized this fall, ��TelCoa will launch a membership drive. "We want to offer a voice ��to all the telework segments - teleworkers, telework managers ��and the companies themselves," Wilsker says. "Individual ��teleworkers are often cut off, isolated. We'll create a forum ��where teleworkers from one company can talk to those from ��another, or even find other teleworkers in their own company ��they otherwise wouldn't have access to. We can help telework ��managers share best practices and ask questions." * TelCoa will begin formally promoting legislation that ��encourages telework, such as tax incentives, as well as work to ��change laws that discourage telework, such as Sen. Chris Dodd's ��(D-Conn.) legislation to end telework double taxing by New York ��State (see editorial link below). * Perhaps most intriguing are TelCoa's plans to build a training ��and certification program. Today, teleworkers are often ��reluctant to take a job with another company for fear of losing ��the telework benefit. In theory, teleworkers could use ��certification as a way to push a new employer to let them ��telework from the outset. Considering the biggest inhibitor to ��telework is middle managers, telework manager training and ��certification has obvious benefits. And if companies with formal ��telework policies and good programs gain certification, they ��could become more attractive to prospective employees. * Last, TelCoa plans to push hard for companies to create formal ��telework policies. Wilsker says today nearly three quarters of ��the organizations he talks to lack them. "Telework policies are ��crucial for dealing with security issues, liability, legal, HR, ��safety, health and ergonomics," he says. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS The Telework Coalition http://www.telcoa.org/ Election season plays, Part 2 Network World, 08/23/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/nlnetwork544 _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Toni Kistner Toni Kistner is managing editor of Net.Worker. Contact her at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Statscout Blanket Network Performance Monitoring Monitor your entire network every 60 seconds with minimal impact on the network. Businesses and organizations seeking detailed performance and troubleshooting reporting on networks of 1000 to 200,000 network interfaces in size will benefit substantially from using Statscout. 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