Alcatel-Lucent announced its subsidiary Alcatel-Lucent France has signed a company-wide agreement to encourage home telecommuting with all the unions present in the company (CFDT, CGT, CFTC, CFE-CGC and FO) — a first-of-its-kind agreement in the industry.
Through this agreement, employees across various units and sites of Alcatel-Lucent France will be able to work from their home, one or two days a week.
Canadian companies are recognizing that juggling work and family timetables can be awkward for many parents, and are taking steps to help out employees by introducing policies that allow telecommuting or flextime, a new survey shows.
According to the recent survey from OfficeTeam, a staffing service, 65 per cent of Canadian companies have made policy changes to better accommodate working parents’ schedules.
WiMAX may be a wide-area networking standard, but most carriers queried in a recent survey said it’s important to provide coverage within buildings as well.
Senza Fili Consulting LLC of Sammamish, Wash. recently interviewed the presidents of 24 WiMAX service providers on their plans for indoor coverage. Three quarters of them said more than 80 per cent of their subscribers plan to connect to the networks from indoor locations.
Sheila Hatherley makes it into her Connecticut office two or three times a year tops.
The rest of the time, she’s at a computer in Sault Ste. Marie, doing her job as clinical site manager for a major U.S. pharmaceutical company, over the Internet.
“People give me a call and they don’t even know that I’ve left head office,” said Hatherley.
From her computer in the Sault, Hatherley oversees clinical trials at clinics and hospitals across the U.S. She never goes to any of the sites she manages, but with her connection to the company network and the contacts she maintains via instant messaging software, “for the most part it is identical,” to being in the office.
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