The American Telecommuting Association urges all organizations whose employees may be impacted by the NYC Transit strike to rethink the requirement that every employee travel every day to a central wo
December 20, 2005 (Press Release) --
Washington, DC (December 20, 2005) -- The American Telecommuting Association takes no position on the merits or justice or legalities of the New York City Transit strike. We simply note that the City of New York has the relatively rare advantage, in America, of being a town with mixed neighborhoods where many of its local residents can comfortably walk to work, walk to shopping, walk to recreation, walk to school, and so forth. However, there are still quite a large number of people who regularly travel on trains, boats, helicopters, busses, and automobiles to reach their places of employment in and around New York City. They are likely to be inconvenienced, or worse, by this strike.
We note with pleasure that one of the first remedies enforced by Transit authorities was to require that automobiles entering New York City carry at least four people.
All this is to the good. But we would like to point out that the need for people to travel to their place of employment is -- in many cases -- greatly diminished, and growing smaller. Various technologies, including but not limited to computerized networking, telephone conferencing, email, voice mail, faxing, and voice over IP, now make effective, inexpensive and highly productive telecommuting a reality for a significant portion of the everyday work force. By shifting tasks from one day to another, it is often possible to create at least one full day every week or two weeks when an employee can work from home with no loss of effectiveness.
The American Telecommuting Association urges all organizations whose employees may be impacted by this strike to rethink the requirement that every employee travel every day to a central workplace.
We note with pleasure that one of the first remedies enforced by Transit authorities was to require that automobiles entering New York City carry at least four people.
All this is to the good. But we would like to point out that the need for people to travel to their place of employment is -- in many cases -- greatly diminished, and growing smaller. Various technologies, including but not limited to computerized networking, telephone conferencing, email, voice mail, faxing, and voice over IP, now make effective, inexpensive and highly productive telecommuting a reality for a significant portion of the everyday work force. By shifting tasks from one day to another, it is often possible to create at least one full day every week or two weeks when an employee can work from home with no loss of effectiveness.
The American Telecommuting Association urges all organizations whose employees may be impacted by this strike to rethink the requirement that every employee travel every day to a central workplace.
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