Employees were challenged to think specifically of ways they can deploy technology to increase our productivity and provide easier access to state information and services to citizens. Employees were challenged to make available electronically the enormous amounts of information state government collects. Governor Leavitt also issued the challenge to state managers to have as many of our state workers as possible telecommuting by the end of our Centennial year. To telecommute successfully you must learn to deal with less structure and more freedom in completing your work. You must learn to change and adapt to an evolving work environment.
Telecommuting requires careful planning and discipline.
This handbook will provide some basic tools and ideas. Many of these you probably already know but they will take on greater importance when you are working from home. Simply, telecommuting is a substitute for the daily commute to and from work, with or without the help of computers. Communication with the regular work place is maintained by telephone, or sometimes by computers or FAX machines, instead of physically traveling to the office. The principle behind this alternate work style is that the employer is paying to get the work done, as opposed to paying for time spent at a location.