Telework

Do you need to be able to access the full functionality of your business VoIP phone from anywhere? Now you can. With Vocalocity’s powerful virtual office tool, your VoIP app can help you conduct business from anywhere, update personal settings, and stay connected without missing a call. It makes teleworking, conferencing in from the road, changing your business VoIP settings, accessing remote voicemail, and viewing call logs a breeze. The Vocalocity mobile app for iPhone® and Android® gives you the versatility you need to run your business and spend more time on the things that really matter. To learn more, visit www.vocalocity.com

In honor of Georgia Telework Week (Sept. 12-16), I am launching a weeklong experiment with my company, PGi, where I will work from home for one week. As a content strategist at PGi, I will meet via iPhone, laptop and virtual meetings solutions iMeet and GlobalMeet.

It’s day four of my Georgia Telework Week experiment and the gig is up. They know about the pajamas, thanks to a Career Builder survey that reveals 3-out-of-10 teleworkers wear their PJs when working from home. Video conferencing solution iMeet lets me compromise with the Business Mullet, business on top, pj’s on the bottom. Get Your Virtual Home Office at www.imeet.com – and share if you’re one of thousands working in their PJs this week!

Teleworking can help save vehicle emissions and help clear the air. Hear from Colette Wimmer with ADP, Inc. and Ryan Taylor with Utah Transit Authority to learn about the benefits of teleworking in their establishments. Learn more at CareToClearTheAir.org.

Working from home on occassion, and when your schedule permits, is an excellent way to reduce your impact, reduce emissions, save money and help clear the air. Watch this short series of webcasts from my day working from home to hear tips and get insight into teleworking. Visit CareToClearTheAir.org for more resources.

Learn how The Clean Air Campaign helped Vocalocity make their informal telework program more structured, resulting in productivity gains and greater use of the program by employees. Vocalocity cited talent recruitment advantages and financial savings among other benefits of their formal telework program.

ICT services impact our every day lives from how we work, to how we travel to how we make purchasing decisions for our daily needs. In this video series, I examine all of these elements from inside executive offices, to transportation systems, inside grocery stores and even in my own home. In this third episode, I explore how ICT enables telework to help organizations lower its carbon footprint, support work-life balance and reduce real estate expenses.

This is part four of my Federal IT Q&A series with Riverbed technical lead Steve Riley. This session examines the considerations for agencies looking at implementing a telework program. Steve covers the technology considerations, user behaviors, applications, as well as how Riverbed products have a role — with regards to ensuring an optimal user experience — when working remotely or on the go.

The US federal government’s Telework Managing Officers (TMOs) have a unique opportunity to use workforce mobility—including telework and a broader range of tools and systems to enable productivity anywhere, anytime, and on any device—as a catalyst to create a more flexible, productive, and inspiring federal workplace. Achieving this vision requires a sober assessment of the current situation, an ambitious, goal-driven strategy linked to agency business objectives, and a new management posture aimed at transforming mind-sets and behaviors rather than resolving technological challenges. www.cisco.com