teleworking
Streamlined and Sustainable: The Dynamic Enterprise: The Role of ICT in Realizing the Business Benefits of Eco-Sustainability
White Paper Applications such as teleworking, videoconferencing and others both reduce energy requirements (helping enterprises meet their environmental targets) and contribute to improved efficiency and effectiveness. [02 Oct 2009]
Get Off the Road and Go Online: The Benefits of Teleworking
White Paper Studies show that a well-formulated teleworking plan can save your company a bundle in actual dollars and untold human hours thanks to reduced operational costs and massive productivity gains. In fact, more... [13 Jan 2009]
Jonathon Porritt
AS Profile This includes encouraging practical solutions such as teleworking, training leaders to bring about change and communicating success stories. 'Being green' has become a major focus in the IT industry - and that's due in... [07 Oct 2008]
Preparing For Emergencies: Secure Remote Working For Continuity Of Operations
White Paper Teleworking has become an everyday occurrence for many organizations. Businesses use teleworking - or remote working - as a way to maximize employee productivity because it allows staff to work from... [06 Jul 2007]
CEOs and CIOs learning to love each other
News Conversely, business managers' top concern is finding and retaining talented staff but 47 per cent said their company does not allow remote or teleworking and less than two-fifths (38 per cent) allow staff to work... [04 Jul 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: There's no workplace like home
Comment If the office is damaged by fire, terrorism or for any number of reasons and is out of action, teleworking allows a company to stay in business. Working from home is good for people and good for the planet. [17 May 2007]
Cost, quality top businesses VoIP priorities
News Improving customer service and encouraging flexible working, cross company communication and teleworking were the next most popular reasons to use IP telephony. Smaller organisations with turnover of less than £1m had an... [08 Mar 2007]
Why don't we talk anymore?
Comment Offshoring, teleworking, disintermediation, diversification and rapid expansion have left those inside the original entity confused about their ever-changing roles. Sometimes it's hard enough to get small teams working... [06 Mar 2007]
ITU 06 diary - BT's bacon sock, mobile medicine and 3G backlash
Comment A representative from the Russian Federation's telemedicine agency revealed how 3G is facilitating the advent of teleworking in Russia, giving some of its more geographically dispersed workers a better shot at jobs in... [07 Dec 2006]
2.6 million home offices in the UK
News Some 10 per cent of all UK households (2.6 million) say they accommodate at least one person who works from home for at least part of the time. The typical homeworker is a father, aged between 25 and 44 years old, who works in middle... [29 Aug 2006]
Dinosaur museum takes a bite of homeworking
Case Study He hopes to have at least 50 staff teleworking in the first year. The home of London's robot dinosaur, the Natural History Museum, is moving to an IP communications infrastructure to help its staff work more flexibly. [06 Jul 2006]
Audit Commission signs Thus for next-gen network
News The Audit Commission will also be able to use their next-generation network for video conferencing to aid teleworking. Thus has inked a £5m deal with the Audit Commission to supply the government agency with a... [04 May 2006]
BT backs flexible working scheme
News A recent survey sponsored by telecoms equipment-maker Mitel showed that nearly half of managers who don't allow teleworking forbid it because it's difficult to know what employees are doing. Employees appear keen on... [05 Apr 2006]
Orange embraces wi-fi
News With a properly-integrated [teleworking] proposition, a wi-fi component is essential. Orange is to launch its own wi-fi network across the UK and will be aping BT with a combined 3G, GPRS and wi-fi service for businesses. [14 Dec 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Teleworking - get it right
Comment Working from home does not suit all roles or all individuals, and when it was first discussed most employers and employees considered it to be a binary decision - teleworking full time from home or working full time in... [03 Nov 2005]