Idea/Topic #2 for the final paper

Here is a second idea:

promotion of telework telecommuting as a public policy to reduce energy consumption

Virginia appears to consider this a public policy area/issue.

Promotion of teleworking as a public policy has connections to:

• reducing energy consumption
• reducing traffic congestion
• reduce office building energy costs
  
• possibly reducing/delaying state transportation costs
• improving air quality
• increasing employment for people with disabilities
• 
  

These are all areas/claims to test/challenge.

Questions

• I hear that some managers still have resistance to telework for their employees. How wide does this feeling spread? Why do they feel this way?
• How many states have laws or rules related to telework? What about Washington?
• What challenges/benefits have they found? What about Washington?
• How many eligible telecommute workers does Washington have? What is the definition of eligible?

Resources:

• California Legislative Analysts Office report for 2004
• Virtual exclusion and telework: Barriers and opportunities of technocentric workplace accommodation policy (From a google search with "telework policy framed in economic terms")
• An adoption model of telework for organizations
• Telework in Hungary