Telework Dataset Information Form

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| **1. Agency Authorship:**   | The Office of Governmentwide Policy,   |
|                             | GSA: www.gsa.gov                       |
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| **2. Contact Info:**        | For questions about this dataset,      |
|                             | contact Theresa Noll, Office of        |
|                             | Governmentwide Policy, General         |
|                             | Services Administration at             |
|                             | <Theresa.noll@gsa.gov>, 202 219-1443   |
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| **3. Title of Study** that  | ##### Telework Technology Cost Study   |
| dataset is from:            |                                        |
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| **4. Year Data Collected**: | 2006                                   |
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| **5. Abstract OR**          | The General Services Administration    |
|                             | (GSA) commissioned this Telework       |
| **Description of Data**:    | Technology Cost Study to (1)           |
|                             | investigate potential cost impacts to  |
| Please provide either the   | Federal agencies of information        |
| Abstract of your study OR a | technology (IT) infrastructure         |
| brief description of your   | expansion to accommodate increased     |
| study explaining what you   | home-based telework, (2) identify      |
| investigated and what data  | technologies needed to support         |
| you collected.              | widespread telework deployment, and    |
|                             | (3) provide guidance to Federal        |
|                             | organizations in justifying IT         |
|                             | infrastructure expansion to support    |
|                             | their telework programs. The study     |
|                             | found that Federal organizations       |
|                             | generally have some of the necessary   |
|                             | elements of IT infrastructure in place |
|                             | to support limited levels of telework, |
|                             | but they lack strategies for IT        |
|                             | support of widespread telework and for |
|                             | including telework considerations in   |
|                             | agency investment planning or          |
|                             | technology enhancement initiatives.    |
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| # Data Collection Details:  |                                        |
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| -   **6A. Constructs        | Current state of telework technology   |
|     Measured:**             | (frequency of telework, types of       |
|                             | equipment used, involvement of IT, use |
| > Ex: Teleworker            | of Internet, troubleshooting, types of |
| > demographics, job         | tasks/docs needed when teleworking,    |
| > satisfaction, work/life   | etc.) scalability needs,               |
| > conflict, managerial      | implementation guidance                |
| > attitudes, etc.           |                                        |
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| -   **6B. Does your dataset | # NO---only occupational series        |
|     contain participant     |                                        |
|     demographics, such as   |                                        |
|     age, race, sex, etc.?** |                                        |
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| -   **6C. Total Number of   | 20 government agencies; N = 1540       |
|     Participants:**         | respondents                            |
|                             |                                        |
| > (Listwise)                |                                        |
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| -   **6D. Type of           | Managers of federal teleworkers        |
|     Participants:**         |                                        |
|                             |                                        |
| > Ex: managers,             |                                        |
| > salespeople, IT           |                                        |
| > department, employees at  |                                        |
| > a manufacturing plant,    |                                        |
| > etc.                      |                                        |
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| -   **6E. Data Collection   | # GOVERNMENT AGENCY                    |
|     Setting:**              |                                        |
|                             |                                        |
| (Please indicate all that   |                                        |
| apply.)                     |                                        |
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| **RAW DATA DOCUMENT**            | **Do you have an electronic file  |
|                                  | to post on the site?**            |
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| **Dataset** (Please indicate the | **YES---** Tech Cost\--Managers   |
| format of the data, e.g., Excel  | 2006 Datafile                     |
| spreadsheet, comma delimited,    |                                   |
| fixed column, SPSS.)             | # What format? Excel              |
|                                  |                                   |
|                                  | Other data files: N/A             |
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| ## Variable Definitions List     | # NO---The variable               |
|                                  |  names are clearly indicated and  |
|                                  | correspond to items on the survey |
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| **Data Collection Instrument**   | **YES---** Tech Cost\--Managers   |
|                                  | 2006 Survey                       |
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| **Reports & Publications         | **YES---**Executive Summary is in |
| (OPTIONAL)**                     | Library at:                       |
|                                  | http://www.gsa.gov/telework       |
| Please indicate the type and     |                                   |
| title of each publication.       | Supplementary documents may be    |
|                                  | obtained from Theresa Noll at     |
|                                  | theresa.noll@gsa.gov or           |
|                                  | 202-219-1443                      |
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**Additional Comments:** NONE