WORKshiftcalgary.com will be a constantly evolving the site with new resources and materials being added frequently.
Download the WORKshift Overview
What does a WORKshift pilot include?
Participating companies are given the opportunity to test world-class on-boarding, tracking and training components to make implementation of telework programs fast and easy.
WORKshift will provide a telework management tool (Teletrips) that makes it easy (and free!) for organizations to identify the right employees for telework, to establish organizational benchmarks, to onboard employees (this includes policies and agreements!), train them (e-Work!) and manage them. Have a look at this demo for more information.
Telework Management System: demo
WORKshift will also provide a web tool to track and report on the positive environmental and financial impacts associated with each employee and organizations' telework implementation. View our tracking demo for a sneak peek!
Tracking and reporting the benefits of telework: Demo
Links:
Robyn Bews, Calgary Economic Development speaks to the "Make it Good" group on Creating a Healthy Workplace
TeleworkResearchNetwork on behalf of Citrix Online: The dollars and sense of workshifting
AllStream - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of Teleworking (webinar presentation)
Alberta WCB Telecommuting Fact Sheet (from www.wcb.ab.ca)
Workshifting Benefits: the Bottom line
This new white paper from the Telework Research Network provides a quantitative synthesis of the potential benefits that regular telecommuting can offer companies, employees and communities
From WebWorkerDaily: How to develop a corporate telework pilot plan
So you are considering teleworking today, but you have a big meeting to attend, and videoconferencing in your sweats won't cut it - what to do? Trendhunter Magazine may have found your answer: the "half-suit"
Learn more at Trendhunter Magazine
Try this telecommuting calculator to understand the potential positive bottom line impacts a telework program could have on your organization
WEBINAR: WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY AS A BUSINESS STRATEGY
IT Business Edge Telecommuting calculator
Indeed, history may record someday that the technology required for productive remote working and the urgent need for remote working (due to high fuel prices) converged in 2008. But is there data to support this notion? WorldatWork is pleased to publish Telework Trendlines 2009, the latest in a set of longitudinal data collected by The Dieringer Research Group.
This link will provide you with an overview of telework considerations, policies and guidelines as recommended by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety in order to maximize the health and safety of employees while working at home. The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) is a Canadian federal government agency which serves to support the vision of eliminating all Canadian work-related illnesses and injuries.
Creating a safe and healthy telework space at home
A sample checklist for reviewing telework proposals
Is your organization prepared in the case of an emergency or event? Click here to assess your readiness and to retrieve help for an action plan:
Business Interuption Risk Assessment
The Top Ten Strategies For Managers Of Mobile Workers - by Terrence L. Gargiulo, President, makingstories.net
Helpful hints on how to convince your boss you should telework
Suggested Reading:
Connecting and Engaging Teams in a Distributed Workforce
Future of Work
by James Ware (Author), Charles Grantham (Author), The Work Design Collaborative, LLC
GROWING THE VIRTUAL WORKPLACE: The Integrative Value Proposition for Telework
The Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
by Alain Verbeke (Author), Robert Schulz (Author), Nathan Greidanus (Author), Laura Hambley (Author)
Employees, organizations and society alike should grow the virtual workplace, the authors argue, as the multiple, tangible benefits of telework for each of these three stakeholders largely outweigh the costs. To help stakeholders benefit from the virtual workplace they analyze four key issues: telework adoption, implementation, tracking and impacts. The authors develop the comprehensive EOS framework to examine both the interaction among employees, organizations and society, and the linkages among telework impacts, tracking, implementation and adoption.
Unique features of the book include an integrative framework for increasing telework adoption; practical tips - specific to each stakeholder - on how best to implement and measure telework; and an analysis of original survey data exploring the virtual workplace adoption decision. Readership for this book includes academic experts on telecommuting, policymakers involved in transportation, human resource or environmental policies, and managers and employees considering telework.
