State TeleCommuting Assistance & Incentives

Telecommute Connecticut shows the way. Company in Connecticut and looking for a powerful tool to promote a company telecommuting program? Get a copy of Connecticut's video Telecommuting: The Road to Success. The rewards of a TeleCommuting program straight from the mouths and experiences of companies doing it. This short but impressive video is free to resident companies, but companies in any state should offer money to get one.

Telecommute Connecticut will help design and/or launch a TeleCommuting program completely customized for a state business or organization -- based on previous successes. Two training options are offered. Materials to help you conduct your own training program in-house. Or, if you prefer, Telecommute Connecticut specialists will conduct training programs at your place of business. They'll even show your TeleCommuters how to set up a home office.

Georgia Teleworking Tax Credit. The law provides $20,000 credit for a telework assessment, and a $1,200 per employee credit for teleworkers that meet a certain threshold of time teleworking for the years 2008 and 2009. The measure sunsets in 2010, a provision that gives the Department of Revenue time to review the program's success.

Oregon Department of Energy Tax Credit. Employers who adopt TeleCommuting are eligible to apply for Oregon´s Business Energy Tax Credit. Also, to encourage the reduction of vehicle commute miles, employers may provide financial incentives to an employee to TeleCommute. 

Telework!Va incentives. Companies can receive as much as $3,500 per employee (for up to ten employees) to establish a TeleCommuting link, lease home office equipment or pay for office space at a convenient telework center.

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Independent & Association Assistance

Gil Gordon got The Telework Hall of Fame Award for sustained and lasting contributions toward creating well-planned and well-managed telework programs benefiting employers, employees, and society as a whole. See what that talent has done for companies he has consulted...and how it will work for you.

Exploring Telework as a Business Continuity Strategy: A Guide to Getting Started are just one of the critical-for-today's-business research studies conducted by the Telework Advisory Group of WorldatWork.

Other Employer Resources

Jobseeker InSiteOffice – InSiteOffice puts the TeleCommuter's home office online. It's how you know Job Seekers here are equipped to do the job. They are required to include a hotlink to their InSiteOffice in all applications.

do!Temps are specialized talent for quick, short-term business needs and emergencies...or to lend businesses the expertise or assistance to move their business to the next level. do!Temps offer choice of the best talent from anywhere in the country...just when you need it!

Collaboration Tools – Today's offerings of collaboration tools can make working with TeleCommuters akin to looking over the shoulder of a worker down the hall: File Sharing – Screen Sharing – Scheduling – Progress Reporting – Time Sheeting – Instant Messaging – Encryption – Internet Phone – Web Conferencing. You can experience most of the variouscollaboration tools with free trials. Some with even free versions.

Put the experts to work for you in picking out the tools right for your company. A very good start is Robin Good's Grassroots Real-Time Collaboration Tools presentation. Put him to work again at kolabora.com. Here, Robin Good voices the opinion of the preeminent independent analyst in the field of online collaboration about what works – and what doesn't.

Push for Employer TeleCommuting Incentives – Press public officials to provide incentives to hire more TeleCommuters.