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Media Release, July 8, 2009
Weary Commuters Offered Tactics for Telecommuting Now
Free teleseminar tells employees how they can get management
approval to work from home
Just the Facts
- Free registration is now open for the teleseminar, “Telecommute
Now! How to Get a YES to Your Request to Work from Home.”
- Telecommute Now! takes place on Thursday, July 30, 2009, from 3:00
to 3:45 PM, Eastern Time.
- Individuals from anywhere in the US and beyond need only dial in
from a land-line telephone.
- Teleseminar participants will learn how to overcome three common
barriers to telecommuting now:
- There's no telecommuting policy where they work
- Their manager puts a premium on “face time” and wants
them in the
office every day
- They’re afraid to broach the subject with their manager
Quotes, attributed to Pat Katepoo of WorkOptions.com
“If you're waiting for your employer or the government to establish
telecommuting policies, you could be sitting in traffic for years to come.
Taking the initiative to propose your own telecommuting arrangement is a
plausible near-term solution.”
“For millions of employees, a computer and a
phone are all that's needed to get most of the job done. Why
drive miles and hours every day to use them? It compromises both
productivity and quality of life.”
“Almost every office job can be restructured
in a way that allows telecommuting one or two days a week.”
“Using specific negotiating tools and
tactics, individual employees have roughly an 80% chance of
getting their request to telecommute approved. There's no need
to wait any longer.”
Boilerplate
Items
WorkOptions.com is a resource site for people who
want approval of a telecommuting, part-time, job sharing
or compressed workweek arrangement at their current job.
Online since 1997, WorkOptions.com has been recommended
as a resource in more than
30 career books.
Pat Katepoo has been a flexible work adviser
since 1993. Her advice on negotiating flexible work
arrangements has been featured in more than
three dozen media
outlets, including The Wall Street
Journal, US News & World Report, and on NBC
Nightly News. She is
the developer of the
Telecommuting Proposal Package.
The Telecommuting Proposal Package includes a
fill-in-the-blank document which has helped thousands of
career professionals in 50 states and 29 countries get
their manager's approval of a flexible work arrangement.
First developed in 1993 and updated annually, it’s exclusively
available by instant download delivery from
WorkOptions.com for $27.
Media Contact
Pat Katepoo
pat @ workoptions. com
541.359.3677
Skype: workoptions
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