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CONGRESS--CUT COSTS AND CORRUPTION; POLITICIANS
WOULD VOTE, DEBATE FROM HOME
Imagine what a different world we might live in if members of Congress rarely traveled outside their district or state and conducted the “peoples’ business” from a high-tech room in their home office that enabled them to debate, sit on committee, question witnesses and vote via teleconferencing. This idea for Congress and state legislatures is as old as the integrated circuit
Defense
Department Seeks to Expand Telework Program
The following text is a quote: American Forces Press Service Defense Department Seeks to Expand Telework Program By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2009 – An updated Defense Department policy expected to be released next month will encourage more managers to adopt telework arrangements for their employees. Almost 17,000 department employees teleworked during the 2008 calendar year, Michael Sena from the Pentagon’s civilian personnel policy told American Forces Press Service.
House
promotes telecommuting for civil servants ("A
happy workforce is a productive workforce,")
WASHINGTON - Congress thinks the federal
government would work better if more civil servants
just stayed home. The House, on a voice vote Tuesday,
approved legislation requiring the head of each
federal agency to set policies allowing qualified
workers to telework, or work from home or a convenient
location. The bill specifies that eligible employees
should be permitted to telework...
Could
rising gas prices kill the suburbs?
Rising fuel costs are being blamed for everything from soaring utility costs to lower retail sales and higher airline tickets. And now, experts say high gas prices could reshape U.S. cities. "Most analysts believe that crude oil prices in the $50s and $60s will be with us for some time," says Stuart Gabriel, director of the Lusk Center, a think tank at the University of Southern California devoted to studying real estate forces and trends. There's even talk of crude hitting $100 per barrel -- or 10 times what it sold for in the summer of 2005. Once the realization...
Commuting
Is a Drag (on the Economy)
Ron Rogers gets behind the wheel of his Acura Integra before dawn in Brentwood, Calif. His iPod, loaded with stand-up comedy and audio books, is hooked up to the car stereo. Rogers needs plenty of audio material for his commute: He drives more than 90 miles -- roughly two hours each way -- from the San Francisco Bay Area to his job as a public relations specialist at a communications technology firm in suburban Sacramento. Rogers is one of the 3.4 million workers that the Census Bureau has dubbed "extreme commuters."
Fuel
prices have workers eyeing telecommuting
NEW YORK (Reuters) - With gas prices near all-time highs, telecommuting is becoming a win-win for companies and their staff -- leaving workers paying less for gas and offering hidden benefits for employers. Telecommuting has moved beyond a scheme to ease the struggles of stressed-out workers to a system that saves money for company and employee alike, companies and experts say. Companies can keep workers they might otherwise lose, while workers can count the benefit in terms of cold, hard cash, they say. |
