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Work, When Work Is Offline
In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, roughly 900,000 New York customers were without power. And even people that did have power found themselves without phone or internet service. So for many organizations, telework (in the technical sense) wasn’t an option. But for plenty, work continued in different, “less modern” ways. Here are some quick thoughts on how ...
No Power and No Way In
We talk A LOT about telework as a disaster preparedness tool. (See U.K. Riots, 2012 Olympics, Snowmaggedon, NATO Protests, H1N1.) But as Superstorm Sandy subsided, I wanted to find out how it was working for some New York organizations. I was also able to trade email messages with Kelly O’Neill a program manager with the Families ...
That Commute is Killing You
New research out this month confirms previous studies…your commute is bad for you. Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis found that people with longer commutes tended to be less active, more likely to be obese and carry excess belly fat, and more likely to have higher blood pressure. The researchers studied 4,300 people in ...
Olympics Driving Flexible Work
Just eight months ago, we wrote about how riots in the U.K. were driving some to implement telework options…in the hopes that employees could avoid traveling into affected areas. Now Great Britain has a much more positive reason to push telecommuting: the 2012 Summer Olympics. In early February, more than 2,500 employees at telecommunications giant ...
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