"Murphy was an optimist!"
Encourage Telecommuting! January 17, 2007 2:55 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : TechnologyI said to mark my words.
I think in the next 10-15 years we will see a great trend in encouraging people to create home offices and work from their houses (at least part of the week). [Source]
Companies are already coming on board!
The [U.S. Patent and Trademark Office] has proposed a telecommuting program whereby its employees would be permitted to telecommute up to four days per week from an approved designated alternative work site–usually the employees’ homes. The agency believes that this program will improve work force recruitment and retention, reduce traffic congestion and pollution in the Washington, D.C., area, and deliver substantial cost savings. It expects to have 3,300 employees participating in this program by 2011. [Source]
They will reimburse high speed Internet connectivity 50-100%. To assure productivity is not sacrificed, the program will only be offered to employees that rated "fully successful" on their most recent performance review.
The location of an employee is not as important as the employee’s performance. Employee performance and productivity can be measured. So long as an employee is performing his or her job functions well from home, those functions should be supported. Internet access in this day and age is critical support, and the employer cost of reimbursing such access is nominal when compared with the cost of maintaining an employee in an office at the employer’s premises. [Source]
They note some of the same benefits I have said of telecommuting.
There are great conveniences for the employee who no longer has to travel to and from work. And there are societal benefits, such as reduced traffic, congestion and pollution. [Source]
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TDOT – Weather Omens January 17, 2007 1:42 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : UncategorizedThe interstates have been salted. Guess it is time to buy bread and milk.
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Eye candy for the politicos January 17, 2007 11:27 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Politics, Touchy SubjectsRepublican babes! Because Dems aren’t the only sexy people.
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More Online Educational Resources January 17, 2007 11:08 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Education, Health, Of InterestThe Internet is packed with more than just information for your children’s education. The Internet has plenty of free online learning resources for adults too! Berkley web and pod casts.
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Backup! I need backup! January 17, 2007 9:05 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Uncategorized
Why would 1 van need 8 police cars with lights flashing? The picture only shows four cars but there were four more.
Looked like a scene from the Blues Brothers.
Update: Word around the church is that the van was carrying 3 ladies that were high speed chased after shoplifting from Walmart.
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Send the bloggers to Guantánamo! January 17, 2007 8:17 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Politics, Touchy SubjectsAre bloggers journalists? If so, will we see bloggers taking Guantánamo vacations without due process?
A last-minute addition to a federal spending bill at the end of the last U.S. Congress now makes civilians eligible for military courts-martial. With the addition of just five words…makes civilian government employees and journalists eligible for prosecution under the Uniform Code of Military Justice…civilians prosecuted in military court don’t receive a grand jury hearing and are tried by members of the military, rather than by a jury of their peers. [Source]
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