Yet another telework study has named DC as the best city for teleworking. Because of the concentration of professional jobs, the tortuous traffic, the sky-high rent and general broadband availability, the DC metropolitan area is considered to have the most to gain (in fuel and rent savings) from teleworking. No big insights there.
But FCW’s cover story this week, Adding telework to agency survival kits, provides a much deeper discussion of the policies and technologies (storage, access, network speed) that make telework a key component in disaster planning. It points out that agencies can meet the objectives of both telework and continuity-of-operations plans with the same investment.
In the article, William Mularie, CEO of the Telework Consortium, says he wants to see federal agencies move from traditional centralized operations into collections of distributed offices. The advantages to this approach in an emergency/disaster are obvious. Less obvious, but no less real, are the jobs and technology infrastructure that government work brings to communities way beyond the Beltway. Small towns that otherwise might never have a crack at attracting high-paying jobs can keep their bright kids from leaving.
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