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This is where we'll announce the most recent additions to our web site.
If you've visited us before and want to know what's changed, take a look
here first.
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The future of ee-learning. You don't know what ee-learning is? Check out Jack Nilles'
article on its future, as extrapolated from our earliest tests of telecommuting.
Learn more about it on our publications
page.
T3
lives!. A reprint of The Telecommunications-Transportation
Tradeoff, the original book on telecommuting, is now available
worldwide via the web. Learn more about it on our publications
page.
Reprint via Barcelona. A reprint of
Jack Nilles' article on telework and internationalization has appeared on the website of infonomia — the network of innovators, a Barcelona-based site
whose mission is to build a dynamic community of business people, executives and professionals who think, generate
and share knowledge and experiences about innovation in organizations, particularly in regard to their transformation toward web organizations.
Do-it-yourself telecommuting cost-benefit analyses.
We have expanded and refined our do-it-yourself set of cost-benefit analyses
for home-based telecommuters. The new online analyses include versions
from two points of view: the employer of telecommuters and the telecommuters
themselves. Try it yourself!
Managing Telework in Polish. Telepraca, the
Polish edition of Managing Telework has been published by Wydawnictwa
Naukowo-Techniczne. Check it out.
Telework and energy consumption. It's time to review
the fundamantals about the dwindling world supply of petroleum and see
what role telework may have in averting an energy-bereft dawn. Time's
awastin'!
Teleworkability Test. We have added a short online self-test
that you can use to gauge the extent to which your job will allow you
to telework. It is a small part of our Telepicker™
selection test series for potential home-based teleworkers. Click
here to try it.
Telework in Latin America, We are pleased to announce our Latin
American representatives: Mieres y Gorchs Asociados. Check the Latin
America page for details.
We usually don't provide links to survey questionnaires but here's one
you might want to try in the interests of promoting telecommuting; click
here.
9/11 and telework. A short essay.
Telework vs. The Media! A response
by Jack Nilles to a spate of articles about lagging interest
in telework.
Managing Telework: Technology chapter update. The sample
chapter on technology, from Managing Telework, was last updated
in January 2002. This is the only place you'll find this chapter; it
replaces the version in the printed book.
Telecommuting video. On 9 March 2001 InfoWorld posted
its online discussion of the benefits of telecommuting. To see it, click
here.
Global telework forecast. We have added our forecast of telework
growth for the entire world. This augments
our US forecast.
Telework in the Netherlands. On 7 November 2000 Jack Nilles
made a presentation (Telework: the First 50 Years) to the Dutch
conference Telewerkforum in Scheveningen. The tele-difference
is that he was in his home office in Los Angeles, addressing the conference
with JALA's desktop videoconferencing system (2:00AM in Los Angeles,
11:00AM in Scheveningen). This also allowed him to vote later, in person,
for at least one of the Presidential candidates.
Telework in Argentina. Jack Nilles gave a one-day seminar,
Managing the Virtual Workforce, at the Universidad Argentina
de la Empresa (UADE) in Buenos Aires on 3 November 2000. While he was
in Buenos Aires he met with many business leaders to discuss the potential
of telework for their organizations, especially in light of the
9 November deregulation of the Argentine telecommunications industry.
He was also interviewed by the Argentine media. For a sample, click
here.
The Telework America 2000 Survey. The results of the Telework
America survey of US teleworkers were released on 24 October 2000. JALA
International conducted the survey, with the aid of the Behavior Research
Center, for the International Telework Association and Council. The
project was funded by AT&T. Find out more at the ITAC
web site.
Telework and gas prices. Some of our comments
on recent price hikes.
Oh, Oh, OSHA! The US Department of Labor's OSHA gave telecommuting
a huge amount of press the first week of Y2K. Check
our response.
ECaTT is not an obscure expletive but a new study of trends
in telework and e-commerce. JALA participated in the global study, covering
Europe, Japan, the US and ten other countries.
Check it out!
Why telecommute? Read the top five reasons in Jack Nilles'
article Telecommuting: the "Working Together Apart Challenge
in Best's
HR Bookmark.
Full reporting. If you want to get the nitty gritty of large
telecommuting projects�and you have a copy of Adobe Acrobat™�
you can now download our final reports on the State
of California and City of Los Angeles
projects. These results are comparable to those of private sector organizations
so you can use them a a reference to forecast likely outcomes of your
own future project.
Some history. If you want a glance at our view of the world
more than 25 years ago, download a copy of one the the earliest papers
on telecommuting: Telecommunications
and Organizational Decentralization. It was written before anyone
had ever heard the terms "personal computer" or Internet.
Teleconcertizing. The "mother of telecommuting,"
Laila Nilles, wrote an article that appeared earlier
in 1999 on the Fleming LTD web site. If you missed it, you can read
a copy here.
Telework, telecommuting, what are they? For those
who need some resolution of this dilemma, see our latest definitional
details.
Managing Telework: Strategies for Managing the Virtual Workplace,
Jack Nilles' newest book on telework and telecommuting, was published
by John Wiley & Sons, New York, in September, 1998. (ISBN 0-471-29316-4)
Managing Telework replaces and updates Making Telecommuting
Happen, adding four new chapters on telework project implementation
steps, organizational design factors, marketing telework centers, and
the potential global impacts of teleworking, as well as an appendix
on futures research.
Here are some reviews:
Jack Nilles has been advancing the ball on telecommuting ever
since he dreamed up the whole idea while stuck in a 1974 Los Angeles
traffic jam. This latest book is no exception. This is the best guide
yet to surmounting obstacles to telework, a term that includes all modes
of technology-assisted work.
—Sue Shellenbarger in her column
Work & Family in The Wall Street Journal,
16 December 1998
There is no better guide to telework than Jack Nilles. His insights
are of growing importance to managers and teleworkers at all levels
and sectors of government, business, and industry.
—William H. Dutton
Professor, Annenberg School of Communication and School of Public
Policy and Urban Development
of the University of Southern California, and former national director
of
the UK's Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT)
A major transformation in the nature of work is in process. Jack
Nilles, for years the foremost expert and visionary leader in the field
of telecommuting, has written the definitive book on the subject. This
is where the future begins. Don't miss it.
—Burt Nanus
Author, Visionary Leadership
Professor Emeritus of Management, University of Southern California
Another milestone from the father of telecommuting; an essential
reference and stimulation for the biggest change in work organization
since Henry Ford.
—Peter Johnston
Directorate General XIII BI,
Telecommunications, Information Market and Exploitation of Research
European Commission
From his twenty-five years of pioneering and perfecting telework,
Jack Nilles defines the essential leadership philosophy of the successful
telemanager and presents his time-tested techniques for Managing Telework.
These pages are packed with top-notch expertise. I wouldn't be without
it!
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—David Fleming
Fleming LTD
Jack Nilles’ new book MANAGING TELEWORK . . . . is
an updated and revised version of MAKING TELECOMMUTING HAPPEN: A GUIDE
FOR TELEMANAGERS AND TELECOMMUTERS, written in 1994 by Nilles. That
one was good but this one is great - and it is the book I will begin
recommending unequivocally as the definitive guide for program planners,
managers and remote workers. If I have been contemplating doing a
new book myself on this topic, I can forget about it; I wouldn’t
want to try to compete with this book.
It covers everything from selection of teleworkers and teleworking
sites, technology planning, and management techniques to policies, tips
for home-based teleworkers, training, and cost-benefit analysis. In
other words, it has everything you need to plan a good program and put
it into practice. You shouldn’t be without it.
—Gil Gordon
Consultant and Editor of the Telecommuting Review
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- For an Adobe Acrobat™ viewable
sample chapter (Telework and Technology; the file is 480KB)
click here.
- Work and Family. For an insightful look at the issues
of reconciling your work life with your real life, be sure to look into
the latest collection of Sue Shellenbarger's columns in the Wall
Street Journal. Titled Work and Family, it's must
reading. You can get it via Amazon.com.
- Project summaries.
- We have added the executive summaries of our projects
for the state of California and the city
of Los Angeles to our publications page.
They are in Adobe Acrobat format for your downloading pleasure.
- Telecommuting hits the road! In February and March
1998 Symantec hosted a 10-city tour to spread the word about telecommuting.
- Jack Nilles spoke at three of the meetings: Seattle, Los Angeles,
and New York. See our links page for details
- Simple Telework Cost/Benefit Analyses are now available
to run on your computer
- We have packaged our simple CBA into a program that will run
on any Windows 9x/NT computer. See our CBA page
for details.
- Jack Nilles commended for service to Los Angeles
- See the press release for more details
- Fala Portuguese? The Brazilian edition of Making
Telecommuting Happen was published in 1997.
- See our publications page for details.
- JALA Key Resource in Telecommuter Lawsuit
- See the press release for more details.
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Press Releases
These are some of the press releases we've issued.
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Some Media
Coverage of
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Sue Shellenbarger's
weekly column on Work & Family in The Wall Street Journal
discussed our forecasts of telecommuting in the United States (May
13, 1998) and, in December, recommended Managing Telework,
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Jack
Nilles ao Expresso: Lisboa
deve colocar-se no mapa do teletrabalho, Expresso XXI,
12 Abril 1997, Lisbon, plus other conversations about telework and
its impacts on Portugal |
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Teleworker
army will grow to 200m worldwide by year 2016, Financial
Times, 8 January 1997, London |
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Corrono
le informazioni, non chi lavora, Teléma, Winter
1996/97, Rome. |
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