Confused about where to start with a telecommuting program? Need some telecommuting support for you or your business? Why not consult the Green Commute Program? The Green Commute Program is at your service with various publications and one-on-one advice on setting-up and effectively continuing a telecommuting program.
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| Clean Air Council staff spread awareness of telecommuting with their newfound "friend" at the recent Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce 2002 Business Expo (from left to right: Green Commute Coordinator Jon Sinker, Aaron Firestone, Benjamin Franklin and Ari Mittleman). |
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The following
are brief descriptions and links to the publications and
services that the Green Commute Program offers potential
and active telecommuters:
Telecommuting News
New! EPA and DOT launch
new Commuter
Choice Leadership Initiative
Wall Street Journal 2/14/03 - If You'd Rather Work
in Pajamas, Here Are Ways to Talk the Boss Into Flex-Time,
by Sue Shellenbarger
Philadelphia
Buisness Journal 8/6/02- A Cigna move could empty Two
Liberty Place, Natalie Kosteini
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
7/31/02, Make tolls part
of transportation fix
Wired
8/19/02 Egads, a Telecommute Success Tale
Telecommuting Survey
Do you telecommute? Click
here to take a quick, online survey and give your
thoughts on working from home.
Telecommuting Resource
Guide for Small Businesses
The Telecommuting
Resource Guide for Small Businesses is an overview
of the information essential to creating a successful
telecommuting program. It covers everything from planning
a pilot project to implementing and maintaining a full
telecommuting program.
Telecommuting Resource
Guide (directory)
The Telecommuting Resource
Guide is a yellow pages-type directory of vendors and
services that will be a handy desktop reference for both
telecommuters and businesses.
Fact Sheet
Clean Air Council's latest
telecommuting fact sheet, Road Trouble Ahead!, offers
data on the economic, environmental, and health costs
of automobiles. This fact sheet explains how telecommuting
can help reduce pollution, decrease gasoline consumption,
reduce the need for new roads, and create a safer commuting
environment.
The Green Commuter Newsletters
The Green Commuter is Clean
Air Council's seasonal publication about telecommuting.
It includes information, interviews with telecommuters,
and updates on what's new in the world of telecommuting.
Telecommuting Services
Doing Your Homework?
Here are some Web resources for employees who want
to switch to flexible work setups.
www.workoptions.com:
Advice and planning tools. Templates for written proposals
to management cost $29.99 each.
www.workfamily.com:
Research on how flexibility benefits employers. For $169,
buy a Web-based telecommuting course.
www.gilgordon.com:
Consultant Gil Gordon offers the best Q&A's about
telecommuting issues.
www.jala.com:
Jack Nilles, an authority on telecommuting, offers a cost-benefit
analysis for telecommuting.
www.joannepratt.com:
A work-at-home self-test, tips and a $14.95 guidebook
offer.
Source: Wall Street Journal, "If
You'd Rather Work in Pajamas," by Sue Shellenbarger,
February 14, 2003.
Telecommuting
Links Page
Click
here for a list of telecommuting web sites
Telecommuting Resource
Center
The Telecommuting
Resource Center is a collection of articles, studies,
books, magazines, and videos pertinent to telecommuting.
Loans or copies of paper materials in the Telecommuting
Resource Center are available to the general public upon
request.
Telecommuting Hotline
The Telecommuting Hotline
is at your service with one-on-one advice on any telecommuting
concern that you might have. You can also call the hotline
if you would like to receive a printed copy of any of
the Council's telecommuting materials. If you live in
the Greater Philadelphia Region you can contact the Green
Commute Program by calling 1-800-290-9732. If you live
outside the Delaware Valley Region you can contact the
Green Commute Program by e-mail at elinn@cleanair.org.
