According to IT World Canada, voice is the lifeblood technology of telecommuters — more so than e-mail, IM or any other means of electronic communications. This is a goog introductory article that discusses VOIP and hybrid IP/digital technology options for tying teleworkers to a corporate voice network.
According to a recent story in the Washington Post, “Concerns over employee productivity and a lack of control over employee activities make it difficult for federal managers to support telecommuting, according to a survey released yesterday.”
Managing teleworkers is about giving up trying to control employees and managing their outcomes (deliverables.) This is a very hard thing for traditional managers to do, especially for those who equate productivity to hours spent at your desk.
Work is not a place, it is an activity.
According to the Ottawa Citizen a Virginia-based company that specializes in “virtual call centres” in the United States plans to hire as many as 500 home-based employees or contractors in the Ottawa area to work for it this year.
Nearly everybody knows something about Open Source software. By now, you’ve probably heard of Linux. Make The Move aims to present Linux and open source software as viable alternatives to the system on your computer. These alternatives are both free (as in price) and free (as in freedom), and put you back in control of your system.