Re: Employees Who Work at Home

[Peter Holfelder <holfep -at- RPI -dot- EDU>]

Lori Moore of Micron in Boise, ID asks:

>Anyway,... if you ARE someone, or you KNOW someone who actually
>transistioned from employee-in-the-office to employee-at-home,
>please contact me at the address below.

Smart Valley Inc., a non-profit organization, distributes the _Smart Valley
 Telecommuting Guide_ and the results of a telecommuting pilot project via
its Web site.  The _Guide_ was written primarily to explain the benefits of
telecommuting to executives; you may find some points for a proposal in it.
It also has sections that examine telecommuting from the employee's point of
view, including the motivation and child-care issues that Jennie Achtemichuk
mentioned in her post.

I don't know too much about the Smart Valley organization other than what
they say about themselves in the _Guide_.  Here is their description of
themselves, found on their Web site at http://www.svi.org/ABOUTSVI/index.html

  "Smart Valley Inc. serves as a facilitative organization working
   to bring together corporations, local governments, community groups
   and individuals to realize the benefits of information technology
   on all sectors of the community- education, healthcare, local
   government, business and the home."

Smart Valley's WWW home page is found at: http://www.svi.org

The Smart Valley Telecommuting Guide page is found at:
http://www.svi.org/SVI/PROJECTS/TCOMMUTE/tcguide.html

The Smart Valley Telecommuting Guide is published in HTML, ASCII text,
and Adobe Acrobat's PDF format.  You can find out more about Acrobat
from Adobe's Web site at http://www.adobe.com , or you can download
it from their ftp site, at ftp://ftp.adobe.com .

Cheers,
Pete
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Peter J. Holfelder
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