TELECOMMUTING: AN ALTERNATE ROUTE TO WORK. VOLUME 1: STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

This publication is intended as a guidebook for justifying, developing, and maintaining a telecommuting program. It is a compilation of lessons learned from the Puget Sound Telecommuting Demonstration. This project recruited and studied telecommuting programs in 25 private and public organizations in the Puget Sound region and surveyed telecommuting programs throughout the country. The first chapter describes what telecommuting can do. Chapter 2 explains how to implement a telecommuting program. The remaining chapters supply more detail on three of the implementation steps: preparing policy documents, selecting telecommuters, and evaluating the success of your program. The information is comprehensive enough for large organizations, yet smaller organizations can easily reduce the scope to accommodate their needs. The appendixes contain valuable information, including examples of program materials and a list of telecommuting resources. They also include originals of selection guides, overheads, and survey forms that can be copied and used. Volume 2 of this guidebook provides instructions and materials for conducting in-house training sessions for new telecommuters and their supervisors.