With 100 employees working from homes scattered across the Pacific Northwest, keeping the work flowing and a team spirit thriving at marketing outsourcer MarketFitz can be a significant challenge.
When Heather Fitzpatrick launched virtual marketing firm MarketFitz in 1998, her biggest fears centred around employee and project management. Turned out, Fitzpatrick should have worried instead about her company
Several years ago, human resources executives at Baptist Health South Florida in Miami decided to launch a telework program. Among their concerns was how childless employees would perceive the company
When Sprint Corp.'s 1,000 teleworkers head home to work for the first time, they're given a computer preloaded with applications, multiple access methods to the corporate network
In three months, the Woburn, Mass., office of Mapics will cease to exist. In anticipation, executives are providing employees with home office furniture, computing equipment and broadband connections.
Olivier Sanche lives and works in Atlanta. He has reports in Colorado, Illinois, New York and California. His supervisor lives in Alaska. Often, team members
Many New York-area companies affected by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 are giving telework programs full credit for helping them to get back to business.