But we judge on overall performance, strive to be a family-friendly employer and we encourage telework.
Abolishing telework is like canceling the prom because some immature people spiked the punch bowl.
Yahoo needs to ask employees how to improve productivity and creativity without having to sacrifice telework.
In the federal government for instance, only 5% of nearly 2 million workers do some telework.
Telework can build loyalty since employees can better manage their family life -- something that everyone can appreciate.
American Express teleworkers handled 26% more calls and produced 43% more business than their office-based counterparts, Telework said.
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Converging factors of telework, globalization, new communications technologies, and recurrent cost-cutting have made virtual life the norm inside companies.
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Companies like Cisco and Booz Allen Hamilton are leading the way with telework policies that encourage people to work where they live.
For Alan Denbigh, co-author of The Teleworking Handbook and former executive director of the Telework Association, there are proven benefits of home working.
"Our telework program started as a grassroots initiative to keep talented employees when there were site consolidations, " Aetna Telework Program head Eileen Levin explains.
From expanding telework options to providing emergency childcare and affordable day care, we need to be implementing all of those ideas throughout the federal government.
Telework, flexible hours and even project-based work became common, everyday realities.
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Additionally, the Telework Research Network, an employment research firm, reports that between 20 million and 30 million U.S. workers are doing it from home a least once a week.
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Thirty million Americans now work from home at least one day a week, with that number forecast to increase sharply in the coming years, according to the Telework Reseach Network.
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From millennials to Gen Xers to boomers, men to women, returning veterans to disabled employees -- having flextime and telework can make a huge difference in people's lives as they juggle work and life.
The pilot program will build on the cost savings telework provided during last winter's snow storms and expand opportunities for federal employees, here in Washington and across America, to telework on a regular basis.
Although exact numbers are hard to come by, according to the latest report by the Global Workplace Analytics and Telework Research Network, telecommuting among U.S. employees (not including self-employed Americans) increased 73% from 2005 to 2011.
Among the trends spurring innovation are the growth in telework and contracting. (Indeed the shift towards contracting and away from hiring employees will increase under the new healthcare law.) Technology has obliterated the need for file cabinets.
Marc Musgrove, Cisco's global communications director, said Yahoo's announcement was unfortunately timed as it came just days ahead of the March 4 start of the third annual Telework Week, a Cisco-backed global initiative to encourage remote working.
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