Telework

According to Sperling's Best Places www.bestplaces.net "teleworking is an advanced form of telecommuting which goes beyond simply allowing employees to work from home or an alternative location a couple of days a week and instead enables them to work at any time or place that allows them to successfully complete their work. In short, it means bringing the work to the worker instead of the worker to the work. This freedom and mobility is made possible by new technology including laptops ...[based on Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology] that provide desktop equivalent performance with long battery life and secure wireless networking capabilities."

Sperling's Best Places and Intel Corporation study (spring 2006) identified the best cities for telework based on typical commute times, fuel prices, availability of broadband Internet access, and percentage of the population in telework-friendly jobs. The study also considered climate and potential for natural hazards. Bakersfield was listed in thirteenth place on the list of sixteen small cities.

Here are a few fast facts from the Telework Exchange SM study based on EPA estimates and Telework Exchange SM registrants released January 31, 2006:

• The Federal Government workforce uses 31.1 million gallons of gasoline commuting to and from work each week.
  
• The United States white-collar workforce uses 583.3 million gallons of fuel each week.
  

• If these two groups teleworked two days each week, they could conserve 12.4 million and 233.3 million gallons of fuel each week, respectively.

California State University, Bakersfield
Telecommute policy
www.csub.edu/BAS/hr/telecommute/index.shtml