Virtually There? The Telework Public Notice
Telework isn’t just about providing a benefit to employees.
Rather, telework seems to benefit workers, employers, and society as a whole. Case studies from the Government Accountability Office and the Patent and Trademark Office suggest that telework provides needed flexibility for an organization and its staff in emergencies while being greener for the environment.
Despite these and other potential advantages of telework and broadband’s ever-expanding ability to make work geographically irrelevant, not being physically “there” may not yet be societally “there.”
A Public Notice (PN) we are releasing today explores the potentially transformative aspect of broadband and telework for the purposes of the National Broadband Plan. Before we carve out national policy, however, we need more information: What empirical evidence exists to suggest that going from dial-up to broadband fundamentally changes the nature of telework? What are the advantages of telework based on the data?
What are the barriers impeding telework programs from more ubiquitous acceptance and success? Going forward, how could broadband change telework? Answers to these questions and others raised in the PN are important to guide our focus and plan for telework in the overarching broadband plan.
Topics: Governance, telework, United States, US
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