Telecommuting

Paper Summary:

The paper examines what telecommuting is, its benefits from the business and employee standpoint, for whom it works, and how to measure its success. The paper also looks at the future of telecommuting and concludes that whatever form it takes, human resource professionals must define what works, they must come up with solid benchmarking for effectiveness of the telecommuter, and must have decisive telecommuting contracts with the means to reward as well as terminate the telecommuter.

Outline:
Introduction
What is Telecommuting
Challenges for the HR Department
The Future of Telework & Conclusion

From the Paper:

"The term telecommuting, referred to telework in Europe, has been bounced around since the 1980s, following the gas shortages of the 70's, and employee concerns about spending too much time away from family with long, time consuming commutes to and from the workplace. Today's technological advances with high speed internet service, email, faxes, video cams, make it more plausible for people to telecommute than ever before. However, it is not something that all businesses, managers, or employees embrace even though they may halfheartedly say publicly they support the concept in order to be politically correct in the workplace."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Althouse. Blogspot (Dec. 25, 2005) What we have here is failure of telecommuting. Retrieved April 29, 2007 from http://althouse.blogspot.com/2005/12/what-we-have-here-is-failure-of.html
• Caren, M.D. (1990) Telecommuting As A Back-Up In Emergencies Retrieved April 29, 207 from http://www.nric.org/pubs/nric2/fg5/carenfocus.pdf
• Gordon, G.E. (1997) The Last Word On Productivity And Telecommuting Retrieved April 29, 2007 from http://www.gilgordon.com/downloads/productivity.txt
• Gordon, G. (July 10, 2001) The USA TODAY Telecommuting Article*: Responding And Pondering USA Today Retrieved April 29, 2007 from http://www.gilgordon.com/062501_usatoday.htm
• Managers Believe Telework Not Supported by Agencies (Feb. 2007) International Public Management Association for Human Resources Website Retrieved April 20, 2007 from http://www.ipma-hr.org/content.cfm?pageid=478#4 Feb. 2007

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